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Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Colavizza, Giovanni  
Bozic, Bojan
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Mendel-Gleason, Gavin
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2016
Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities
International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities

Marvel et al. [12] recently argued that the pre-modern contact world was physically and, by set inclusion, socially not small-world. Since the Black Death and similar plagues used to spread in well-defined waves, the argument goes, the underlying contact network could not have been small-world. I counter here that small-world contact networks were likely to exist in pre-modern times in a setting of the greatest importance for the outbreak of epidemics: urban environments. I show this by running epidemic diffusion simulations on the transportation network of Venice, verifying how such network becomes small-world when we account for naval transportation. Large epidemic outbreaks might not have been even possible without the catalyst of urban small-worlds.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4
Author(s)
Colavizza, Giovanni  
Editors
Bozic, Bojan
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Mendel-Gleason, Gavin
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Debruyne, Christophe
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O'Sullivan, Declan
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Publisher place

Cham

Published in
Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities
Series title/Series vol.

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volume

482

Start page

33

End page

40

Subjects

Epidemics

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Venice

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Small-world networks

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International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities

Dublin, Ireland

May 25, 2016

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November 10, 2016
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