Hello @Shelley20592268. Thanks for your question submitted to the #MAAWebinar last Friday. We're just getting the whole list assembled now. You had asked: "How can art historians help clarify the newer, emerging history of the Black Death to students and beyond?" My one foray ...

.. into plague iconography doesn't contribute much directly to art history ( https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/tmg/vol1/iss1/13/), but it did lead me to ask colleagues in other fields whether they new of any plague iconography in the Islamic world or China. All said no. No depictions whatsover. So right now,

... it seems that Europe is distinctive in developing any plague imagery at all. Obviously, as Dr Chaganti said in her talk on the 'Danse macabre', some forms of art we associate w/ the #BlackDeath actually started to be used before plague arrived. So care is needed w/ causal ..

.. claims. That said, one thing that does seem to be clear is that depictions of plague symptoms (most importantly, the characteristic buboes) doesn't start until about 50 years after the #BlackDeath 1st struck. By that point, of course, it was obvious that they were living in ..

.. a "plague regime": it wasn't going away & they'd better get used to dealing w/ it. One of our moderators, Lori Jones, has a piece forthcoming on medical depictions of plague. I'd also encourage you to look bibliography in Dr Chaganti's work. Thanks for your question!

Sorry, I forgot to mention. @Sonja_Drimmer had a nice thread recently about another kind of "document" showing the experience of #plague: https://twitter.com/Sonja_Drimmer/status/1242483794646630400?s=20.