title: Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack <i>et al.</i>
abstract: This essay responds to Brack <i>et al</i>., 'Plague and the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources', which is a critique of our 2021 essay in this journal, 'Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)'. We argue that Brack and colleagues have misunderstood our investigation as an attempt to pinpoint the exact timing of the outbreak of plague connected with the Mongol siege of Baghdad, and so believe that an altered timeframe invalidates our suggestion that plague was involved
journal: Medical History