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  1. Myths and Memories of the Black Death
    Author: Dodds, Ben
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham

    This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black... more

     

    This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783030890605
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022
    Subjects: European history; Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter; Geschichte: Seuchen, Krankheiten usw; Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie; HISTORY / Historiography; HISTORY / Medieval; HISTORY / Social History; Historiography; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Literary studies: general; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; Social & cultural history; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
    Scope: 290 Seiten
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    Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)

    1. Introduction2. Rediscovering the Black Death3. The Black Death and Englishness4. Plague in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries5. The Black Death and War in the Mid-Twentieth Century6. New Explanatory Frameworks and Black Death Forgetting7. Imagining Victory Over the Black Death8. Denial, Climate Change and New Evidence about the Black Death9. Conclusion