Myths and Memories of the Black Death

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.