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

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 of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time.

• | Author: Alfred Thomas
• | Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• | Publication Date: Apr 23, 2022
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9783030948498
• | ISBN-10: 3030948498