Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human “software” has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

Philosophy --- Jewish religion --- Old English literature --- Literature --- History --- History of Europe --- cultuur --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Jodendom --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Peste noire --- Épidémies --- Minorités --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- Diseases and literature. --- Plague in literature. --- Epidemics in literature. --- Diseases in literature. --- Plague --- Epidemics --- Antisemitism. --- Violence. --- Aspect social --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire. --- Violence envers --- Crimes contre --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Judaism and culture. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- 20th century. --- 476-1492.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Bologna is well known for its powerful university and notariate of the thirteenth century, but the fourteenth-century city is less studied. This work redresses the imbalance in scholarship by examining social and economic life at mid-fourteenth century, particularly during the epidemic of plague, the Black Death of 1348. Arguing against medieval chroniclers' accounts of massive social, political, and religious breakdown, this examination of the immediate experience of the epidemic, based on notarial records--including over a thousand testaments--demonstrates resilience during the crisis. The notarial record reveals the activities and decisions of large numbers of individuals and families in the city and provides a reconstruction of the behavior of clergy, medical practitioners, government and neighborhood officials, and notaries during the epidemic.

Black Death --Social aspects --Italy --Bologna --History --Sources. --- Black Death --Social aspects --Italy --Bologna --History. --- Bologna (Italy) --Economic conditions. --- Bologna (Italy) --History --To 1506. --- Bologna (Italy) --Social conditions. --- City and town life --Italy --Bologna --History --To 1500. --- Community life --Italy --Bologna --History --To 1500. --- Notaries --Italy --Bologna --History --To 1500. --- Parishes --Italy --Bologna --History --To 1500. --- Wills --Italy --Bologna --History --To 1500. --- Black Death --- Notaries --- Wills --- City and town life --- Community life --- Parishes --- Plague --- History, 15th Century --- History, Early Modern 1451-1600 --- Yersinia Infections --- Enterobacteriaceae Infections --- History --- Humanities --- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections --- Bacterial Infections --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Diseases --- Infectious Diseases --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Social aspects --- History. --- Bologna (Italy) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Codicils --- Notaries public --- Notary publics --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Bononia (Italy) --- Bologne (Italy) --- Bolonia (Italy) --- Bononia Pinguis (Italy) --- Felsina (Italy) --- Church polity --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates) --- Justices of the peace --- Non-contentious jurisdiction --- Epidemics --- Medicine, Medieval --- Peste noire --- Notaires --- Testaments --- Vie urbaine --- Communauté --- Paroisses --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Bologne (Italie) --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Black Death. --- Black death --- City and town life. --- Community life. --- Economic history. --- History, 15th Century. --- MEDICAL --- Notaries. --- Parishes. --- Wills. --- Social aspects. --- Forensic Medicine. --- Preventive Medicine. --- Public Health. --- To 1506. --- Italy --- Italy. --- Economic conditions --- Black Death - Social aspects - Italy - Bologna - History --- Black Death - Social aspects - Italy - Bologna - History - Sources --- Notaries - Italy - Bologna - History - To 1500 --- Wills - Italy - Bologna - History - To 1500 --- City and town life - Italy - Bologna - History - To 1500 --- Community life - Italy - Bologna - History - To 1500 --- Parishes - Italy - Bologna - History - To 1500 --- Bologna (Italy) - History - To 1506 --- Bologna (Italy) - Social conditions --- Bologna (Italy) - Economic conditions