Infectious Fear: The Rhetoric of Pestilence in Middle English Didactic Texts on Death

Lawrence, Tom

doi:10.1080/0013838x.2016.1254477

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“…At times of crisis brought on by disease outbreaks, veritable hordes of exegetes of Biblical texts a kind of pandemic cultural industryhave time and again sprung up, ranging from custodians of religious orthodoxy through to heterodox entrepreneurs and theological innovators of all sorts (Cohn 2009). They have offered to audiences supposedly authoritative interpretations of both the Bible and of the plague, connecting the two in specific ways that are presented as being rooted in the hermeneutic depths of the Biblical texts themselves, as well as instructing people on what to do to save their lives and, often more importantly, their souls (Lawrence 2017).…”

Section: Plagues and The Authority Of Translated Religious Textsmentioning

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“…What was also a major preoccupation for Christian divines of the time, and for those to whom they preached, was that the plague was not only a threat to the body, but also, and even more so, to the soul. The consequence of suddenly dying in an unprepared, unabsolved, and therefore sinful, state was a terrifying prospect (Lawrence 2017). The overwhelming "preoccupation of the clergy and laity alike, from peasant to prince, from parish clerk to pontiff, [was] with the safe transition of their souls from this world to the next, above all with the shortening and easing of their stay in purgatory" (Duffy 1992, 301).…”

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Palimpsests of plague

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This paper examines aspects of how language, translations, narratives, and plagues have been in interplay in the past, with a view to setting out some possible lessons for today. It looks at two types of practices. First, when people make plague-related translations of texts with religious or medical content from one language to another, producing and reproducing texts that enjoy certain forms of persisting authority in guiding thought and practice related to handling and making sense of major disease outbreaks. Second, when people turn plague phenomena into narratives with story arcs, narratives which can endure over time and shape subsequent understandings of later outbreaks. Despite more complexity and multiplicity in social configurations and communications today, many of the phenomena concerning translation and narration that have happened in plague scenarios of the past have again played out during the Covid-19 pandemic, albeit with distinctive modern colourings.

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Section: Plagues and The Authority Of Translated Religious Textsmentioning

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Section: Plagues and The Authority Of Translated Religious Textsmentioning

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Ars Moriendi: An Overview of Approaches to the Art of Dying, Grief and Loss for Nurses Working in Mental Health

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Raeburn

2022

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De Venecia a Lerma: la recepción vocal e instrumental de Boccaccio. Música, epidemias y canon poético (1500-1650)

Comín

2022

Cuad. filol. ital.

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Entre 1500 y 1650 se sucedieron en el norte y centro de Italia severos episodios epidémicos que transformaron la realidad política, territorial, social, económica y cultural de sus estados. A lo largo de este tiempo los compositores de madrigales integraron de un modo creciente, como respuesta a la realidad vivida, los poemas cantados que cierran las jornadas del Decamerón de Boccaccio, configurándose así un canon que evolucionó a medida en la que nuevos episodios epidémicos golpeaban a la población. Este trabajo se propone delimitar y dar a conocer las fuentes musicales de los textos de Boccaccio durante el periodo examinado, tanto en el ámbito vocal como instrumental, así como su lugar en el espacio de los contrafacta sacros como misas parodia; configurar la evolución del canon poético puesto en música y su difusión –que alcanza hasta la corte del Duque de Lerma en España–, y analizar concisamente las características musicales –factura, forma y género– del mismo como respuesta creativa, interpretativa y expresiva frente al estímulo literario

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Infectious Fear: The Rhetoric of Pestilence in Middle English Didactic Texts on Death

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Palimpsests of plague

Palimpsests of plague

Ars Moriendi: An Overview of Approaches to the Art of Dying, Grief and Loss for Nurses Working in Mental Health

De Venecia a Lerma: la recepción vocal e instrumental de Boccaccio. Música, epidemias y canon poético (1500-1650)

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