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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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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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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 explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial conn
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Several poetic and prose compositions in early Italian literature contain references to the bubonic plague and other ill
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Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of
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This remarkable anthology of sixteen narratives from ancient and medieval Hebrew texts opens a new window onto the Jewis
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