Author: Raymond CrawfurdPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art
Author: Raymond CrawfurdPlague and Pestilence in Literature and Art
Author: Sir Raymond Henry Payne CrawfurdPublisher:
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Category : Medicine and art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE IN LITERATURE AND ART
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ISBN: 9781033393260
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art
Author: Raymond CrawfurdPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497907737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art
Author: Sir Raymond Henry Payne CrawfurdPublisher:
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Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art (Classic Reprint)
Author: Raymond CrawfurdPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265230169
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Excerpt from Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art This volume represents substantially the F itzpatrick Lectures which I had the privilege of delivering at the Royal College of Physicians in 1912. Originally I intended to do no more than gather together into a succinct record the various memorials and reminders of Pestilence that I had met with in my wanderings at home and abroad and in my casual incursions into general literature. Insensibly the desire to understand supplanted the desire merely to record, and the desire to explain superseded the endeavour to understand. I have turned my attention, as far as practicable, only to the literary and artistic associations of Pestilence, but these have inevitably overlapped the confines of history and of medical science. The latter territory has been invaded only so far as was necessary to ensure a correct orientation to the inquiry. I have thought it wise to let the curtain fall at the end of the eighteenth century, leaving it to my readers to decide what vestiges of the mentality of distant centuries have survived into this twentieth. A little reflection on this will afford a most salutary lesson to all of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art
Author: Raymond Henry Payne CrawfurdPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016870474
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature
Author: Hunter H. GardnerPublisher:
ISBN: 0198796420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter FurtadoPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500776474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
An eye-opening anthology from the bestselling editor of Histories of Nations, exploring how people around the globe have suffered and survived during plague and pandemic, from the ancient world to the present. Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years. Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 during the great plague, which went on to kill half of the population, he wrote about everything he saw. He reported, "God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the figure of 24,000 a day." From the plagues of ancient Egypt recorded in Genesis to those like the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, and from the Spanish flu of 1918 to the Covid-19 pandemic in our own century, this anthology contains fascinating accounts. Editor Peter Furtado places the human experience at the center of these stories, understanding that the way people have responded to disease crises over the centuries holds up a mirror to our own actions and experiences. Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic includes writing from around the world and highlights the shared emotional responses to pandemics: from rage, despair, dark humor, and heartbreak, to finally, hope that it may all be over. By connecting these moments in history, this book places our own reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic within the longer human story.
In the Wake of the Plague
Author: Norman F. CantorPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476797749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.