Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 2178 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 2156 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Ben Dodds
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2021-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3030890589
This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Best books
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 1895
Category :
ISBN :
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Subject catalogs
ISBN :
Author : Patricia B. Burnette
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 147660200X
Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked to Jefferson Davis about terms of peace. Lincoln recognized his many abilities and invited Jaquess to serve as one of his personal agents. But after the Civil War ended, this biography reveals, Jaquess' life changed for the worse. He was tried in Kentucky for the death of a woman and failed as a carpetbagger in Arkansas and Mississippi. Then he convinced his family and friends in Indiana and numerous residents of New York to invest in Lawrence-Townley bonds and share in a fortune waiting in England. This venture ended in poverty for him and a sentence in a British prison. When he returned to America for his final years, Jaquess still held the respect of the men of the 73rd Infantry and the affection of the women who knew him as president of their college in Jacksonville. His misadventures having turned his black hair to white, he still possessed the charisma that had led to his national fame.
