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Myths and Memories of the Black Death (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Myths and Memories of the Black Death (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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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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