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Pandemic Literature, 1346-53

Lectures: The Black Death was the worst pandemic in recorded history. How did medieval writers portray it in literature?

Fri
24
Mar
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Mar. 24, 2023
Bishop Room 209 (Auditorium), Bishop Hall, Oxford Campus
Open to the public

The "Great Pestilience" (1336-53) -- a.k.a. "the Black Death," the worst pandemic in human history -- coincided with the flowering of European vernacular literature, Graduate students in English and Creative Writing (Diego Fleitas, Sayantani Mukherjee, Michael Portacoloni, and Nicholas Sumrall) will discuss how medieval pandemic influenced famous writers such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer as well as inspired a general literary fascination with morbid subjects and macabre imagery. 

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Event posted by: hayes@olemiss.edu

Sponsored by: English Graduate Student Body, Scholarly Events Committee