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Killing Time: Historical Narrative And The Black Death In Western Europe, Kira Zimmerman
Killing Time: Historical Narrative And The Black Death In Western Europe, Kira Zimmerman
Honors Papers
Echo epidemics would sweep through Europe well into the eighteenth century, yet none would parallel the terror and drama particular to the Black Death (1348-1351), nor would they inflict as violent an injury upon paradigms of historical writing. This thesis explores and evaluates how the Black Death affected medieval historical narrative.