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In 2002 he published Svartedauen og senere pestepidemier i Norge: pestepidemiens historie i Norge 1348-1654, on the history of plague in Norway. His main works having revolved mainly around Norway and the Nordic countries , Benedictow's book The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History , from 2004, is an extensive study of the impact of the ...
2017: The Plague, a play adapted by Neil Bartlett. [28] Bartlett substitutes a black woman for the male doctor, Rieux, and a black man for Tarrou. 2020: The Plague, an adaptation for radio of Neil Bartlett's 2017 play. Premiered on 26 July on BBC Radio 4 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The play was recorded at home by actors during the quarantine ...
The Cronaca fiorentina is not only a detailed history of the Black Death in Florence, but also a history of Florentine political groups and the political ambitions of individuals. [1] [4] Bonaiuti stresses the economic disruption in Florence during the fourteenth century which was the result of the bubonic plague. [5]
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2002.The novel explores how world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99 percent of Europe's population, instead of a third as it did in reality.
The book's focus is the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages which caused widespread suffering in Europe in the 14th century. Drawing heavily on Froissart's Chronicles, Tuchman recounts the histories of the Hundred Years' War, the Black Plague, the Papal Schism, pillaging mercenaries, anti-Semitism, popular revolts including the Jacquerie in France, the liberation of Switzerland, the Battle of the ...
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, "Nights of Plague," depicts a Mediterranean island throwing off the yoke of empire during a plague year.
In December 2020, The Four Black Deaths by Green was published in the American Historical Review. [14] In the article she documents historical records suggesting that the second documented pandemic of bubonic plague may have begun in the 1200s A.D. rather than the 1300s. [15] Green has published 86 plague studies as well as 12 studies ...
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. ... A 2019 review ...