Book ID: CBB440335571

Myths and Memories of the Black Death (2021)

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Dodds, Ben (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 297
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Green, Monica H.
Varlik, Nükhet
Elisa Tinelli
Ruiz Vega, Paloma
Yoshina Hurgobin
White, Alexandre I. R.
Concepts
Pandemics
Plague
Public health
Medicine
Medicine and society
Epidemics
Time Periods
Medieval
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Places
Europe
Mediterranean region
Italy
Calcutta (India)
Mauritius
England
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