The Plague of Fantasies 9781844673032

Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague 9781512822885

A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writ

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Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901 9780814722824

A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story

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Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain 9780812292541

During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problem

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Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust 9781501730054

Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial conn

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The Theme of the Plague in Italian Letters 1433151529, 9781433151521

Several poetic and prose compositions in early Italian literature contain references to the bubonic plague and other ill

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Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life 9780231529211

Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of

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Rabbinic Fantasies 9780300143645

This remarkable anthology of sixteen narratives from ancient and medieval Hebrew texts opens a new window onto the Jewis

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Plague fighter: the autobiography of a modern Chinese physician.

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Sex Education: The Final Plague 0895554712

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In the Wake of the Plague 0684857359, 9781439136027

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