Minor: some recent papers argue the death toll from the Plague of Justinian has been exaggerated.
Existing mortality estimates assert that the Justinianic Plague (circa 541 to 750 CE) caused tens of millions of deaths throughout the Mediterranean world and Europe, helping to end antiquity and start the Middle Ages. In this article, we argue that this paradigm does not fit the evidence.
It concludes that the Justinianic Plague had an overall limited effect on late antique society. Although on some occasions the plague might have caused high mortality in specific places, leaving strong impressions on contemporaries, it neither caused widespread demographic decline nor kept Mediterranean populations low.
Minor: some recent papers argue the death toll from the Plague of Justinian has been exaggerated.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/51/25546?fbclid=IwAR1bN1LgbMI-CVUNxGsm3QxCEhGMVMB50IkEVoKpEIfSySEmxY6Ug5IhRTE
https://academic.oup.com/past/article/244/1/3/5532056
(Two authors appear on both papers.)