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Abstract
The present article looks at plague outbreaks in Yemen in the period of c.839/1436–965/1558. Based on both textual sources and palaeo-environmental evidence, it focuses in particular on the region of Ibb, which appears to have hosted a natural plague reservoir, out of which plague waves were radiating, and the environmental factors that contributed to the maintenance of the same reservoir. The article links the findings to wider ongoing debates in the fields of plague history and Yemeni history.