Myths and Memories of the Black Death

AvBen Dodds

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030890575

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Ben Dodds is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Rediscovering the Black Death.- 3. The Black Death and Englishness.- 4. Plague in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.- 5. The Black Death and War in the Mid-Twentieth Century.- 6. New Explanatory Frameworks and Black Death Forgetting.- 7. Imagining Victory Over the Black Death.- 8. Denial, Climate Change and New Evidence about the Black Death.- 9. Conclusion.