The Plague and the Wolf as Places of Memory

• Authors: Gábor Klaniczay
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The essay compares two cases of very intense panic caused by the destructive forces of nature. The panic caused by the Black Death – a topic Halina Manikowska also dealt with – is presented from the point of view of its frightening memory. The long-term evolution and changes in the then-prevailing attitudes is compared to the lasting fear and panic from the menace of wolves, which also represented a mortal danger in medieval and early modern Europe; they were also feared and had to be fought against for centuries. The nature of the danger from the presence of wolves, and the ways to defend oneself against it, was however very different from the danger related to the plague.

Keywords

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Plague; Wolf; Boccaccio; Matteo Villani

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 119

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-09-01

Contributors

author

Gábor Klaniczay

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/APH.2019.119.02