Encountering the Plague

Wojciech Sowa is Chair of the HERA JointResearch Programme Board and Professor withinthe Institute of Classical Philology, Jagiellonian University, Poland.Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University UK. From 2017-2023, he worked as a Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellow for the Humanities in the European Research Area.

• AcknowledgementsContributor biographiesList of illustrations INTRODUCTIONEncountering the PlagueWojciech Sowa and Tony Whyton RITUALS AND RITES, RIGHTS AND BEHAVIOURSHeritage, Escapism and Anxiety: Visits to Corfe Castle During the COVID-19 PandemicJo SofaerRitualization of ‘Distance’ in Christian Liturgy During the PlaguePiotr Roszak and Piotr Pawel OrlowskiProtesting in defence of human rights in the time of pandemic: Freedom of assembly and COVID-19Grażyna Baranowska and Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias PLAGUE IN HISTORY Recounting the Plague in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century LondonCharles Giry-DeloisonRepresentation of the Plague in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Texts and responses to the COVID-19 PandemicFlorian Steger‘Let every man drinke in his own cup, and let none trust the breath of his brother’: Encountering Plague in Early Modern Port CitiesJames Brown and Gabrielle Robilliard COVID-19: TEXTS AND DISCOURSECoronavirus in times of the late internet: compulsive visualization and a data-hungry societyAgnieszka JelewskaHow Language Conceptualized the PandemicMalgorzata MajewskaPandemic Discourse: From Intimidation to Social DistancingRūta Petrauskaitė and Darius Amilevičius CREATIVE RESPONSES TO PLAGUENights of Crises and Resistance: (En)countering the Politics of Disease and Death in Bacurau (2019)Sara BrandelleroA Pandemic Crisis Seen from the Screen: A Reflection on Pandemic ImaginationAnna Nacher, Søren Bro Pold, and Scott RettbergRepetition and Revision: The Plague, ‘St James Infirmary’ and the Humanities in times of crisisTony Whyton CONCLUSIONThe Power of the HumanitiesWojciech Sowa

'This wide-ranging, timely and unique collection registers in a powerful way the diversity as well as the commonalities of the experience of plagues and pandemics. It makes clear that art and creativity can provide some of the deepest insights into such experiences, and any analysis that ignores this will be impoverished and misleading... We need the humanities – and this volume (inspired by the work of the Humanities in the European Research Area consortium) eloquently testifies to the truth of this.'