Myths and Memories of the Black Death

By: Dodds, Ben

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030890600
• ISBN13: 9783030890605
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"