EUROpest

A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe

01.01.2026 bis 31.12.2030

The objective of the project is to find the answer to the question of why the same pathogens, depending on the context, bring about different biological, ecological, social, economic and cultural effects. WThis will be address by studying more than 50 different epidemics in European history, from the Black Death to the age of industrialization, over some 500 years, looking at them from possible angles, including climate, genetics and ecology.