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Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern TimesWhy Is Black Death Black? European Gothic Imaginaries of ‘Oriental’ Plague

Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times: Why Is Black Death Black? European... [The German physician and medical historian Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker’s pioneering 1832 work on the Black Death is generally regarded as the beginning of modern historical scholarship on this subject. Hecker is credited not only with coining, if not universalising, the term ‘the Black Death’, but also with setting the emotional tone of historical epidemiology—as Gothic epidemiology. In the same vein, other medical authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries forged the basic tenets of historical epidemiology and helped lay the foundations of the burgeoning field of modern scientific epidemiology. This body of scholarship has its flaws: it singles out the Black Death as a distinct historical phenomenon, separate from other plague outbreaks, and is overtly Eurocentric and Orientalist in tenor. These characteristics underscore the heavy ideological baggage of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical scholarship on the Black Death whose legacy still continues today.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern TimesWhy Is Black Death Black? European Gothic Imaginaries of ‘Oriental’ Plague

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-72303-3
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11 –35
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10.1007/978-3-030-72304-0_2
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[The German physician and medical historian Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker’s pioneering 1832 work on the Black Death is generally regarded as the beginning of modern historical scholarship on this subject. Hecker is credited not only with coining, if not universalising, the term ‘the Black Death’, but also with setting the emotional tone of historical epidemiology—as Gothic epidemiology. In the same vein, other medical authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries forged the basic tenets of historical epidemiology and helped lay the foundations of the burgeoning field of modern scientific epidemiology. This body of scholarship has its flaws: it singles out the Black Death as a distinct historical phenomenon, separate from other plague outbreaks, and is overtly Eurocentric and Orientalist in tenor. These characteristics underscore the heavy ideological baggage of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical scholarship on the Black Death whose legacy still continues today.]

Published: Jul 30, 2021

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