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