Evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the early thirteenth century-over a century before it made its virulent appearance in the Mediterranean.

Robert Hymes' work focuses on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China. Monica H. Green (PhD Princeton University, History of Science) has published widely on medieval medicine. Carol Symes is the founding Executive Editor of The Medieval Globe and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.