This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. 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.
Ben Dodds is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University, USA.
1. Introduction.- 2. Rediscovering the Black Death.- 3. The Black Death and Englishness.- 4. Plague in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.- 5. The Black Death and War in the Mid-Twentieth Century.- 6. New Explanatory Frameworks and Black Death Forgetting.- 7. Imagining Victory Over the Black Death.- 8. Denial, Climate Change and New Evidence about the Black Death.- 9. Conclusion.