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| Autore principale: | Getz, Faye Marie, 1952-
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| Titolo: | Black Death and the silver lining : meaning, continuity and revolutionary change in histories of medieval plague / Faye Marie Getz. |
| Abstract: | 'The Great Plague of the 14th century provoked written comment from those who lived through it, and after it ... This amount of documentation for the pandemic has spawned a Black Death industry, which began during the early 19th century alongside the science of epidemiology itself. Early 19th-century German scientists in particular not only saw in medieval accounts of the Black Death a laboratory for their own speculation on nature and epidemic disease, but also saw evidence for man's progress toward a new age, the Renaissance ... This Romantic--or, as will be argued, gothic--construction of the Black Death remains a powerful theme in the history of epidemiology today. But since at least the 1960s another, competing interpretation of the Black Death has been offered, especially by historians of the "Annales" school ... [They] see in the Black Death evidence for the enduring nature of medieval social and intellectual institutions ... Both points of view show how a changing cultural climate affects the way in which historical evidence is interpreted, and a study of these contrasting interpretations of the Black Death throws light on many of the unspoken assumptions of historical and scientific writing.' |
| In: |  Journal of the history of biology Vol. 24 (1991), p. 265-289 |
| Discipline: | Peste--Storiografia. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Medioevo. Rinascimento. Secoli XVII-XX. |
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