Degree Year
2019
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Advisor(s)
Ellen Wurtzel
Keywords
History, Plague, Biohistory, Black Death, Europe, Medieval, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Narrative, Narrative theory, Contagion, Catastrophe, Apocalypse, Time, Temporality, Bubonic plague, Pandemic, Disease
Abstract
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.
Repository Citation
Zimmerman, Kira, "Killing Time: Historical Narrative and the Black Death in Western Europe" (2019). Honors Papers. 142.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/142
