Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to Covid-19

by Alfred Thomas

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 (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human "software" (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030948498
• ISBN13: 9783030948498
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"