Article ID: CBB995397673

Colonialist Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: Thomas Walsingham and the Black Death on the Anglo-Scottish Border (2023)

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This article examines the role of colonialist rhetoric in Thomas Walsingham’s late fourteenth century account of a plague outbreak on the Anglo-Scottish Border in 1379. Although Scotland was not a colony of England during this period, colonialist rhetoric about primitivism and civilization shaped Walsingham’s description of the Black Death and its aftermath. Walsingham’s chronicle thus shows how this kind of discourse can guide historical interpretation, even in the absence of a ‘true’ colonial system. Furthermore, this discussion of Walsingham’s history demonstrates how the Middle Ages might contribute to the modern study of colonialism.

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Authors & Contributors
Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel
Brunton, Deborah C.
Harris, Richard
Jenner, Mark S. R.
Lewis, Robert
Münch, Paul
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
History of Psychiatry
Korean Journal of Medical History
American Quarterly
Environmental History
Historische Zeitschrift
Publishers
Ashgate
Boydell Press
Duquesne University Press
The Claremont Graduate University
University of Rochester Press
Claremont Graduate University
Concepts
Public health
Plague
Colonialism
Disease and diseases
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
People
Bruce, Robert, Earl of Carrick
Henry VIII, King of England
Pepys, Samuel
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
19th century
20th century, early
Medieval
14th century
Places
England
Scotland
India
Great Britain
Ireland
Korea
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