CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Laginja, Matea |
|---|---|
| Title | Narrating Death: The Plague of 1348 in Dalmatian and Italian Narrative Sources |
| Summary | The Black Death, the fourteenth century plague epidemic, left a strong impact on the people of that period, which was also reflected in the amount of written data preserved from the period. In this thesis I discuss the plague-related motifs present in Dalmatian primary sources, with emphasis on A Cutheis Tabula, a contemporary account dealing with the plague in Split. Other Dalmatian sources, both contemporary and later ones, are discussed in relation to the aforementioned narrative and their origins in the city of Dubrovnik; the motifs that can be read from them are compared to a sample of Italian accounts from the same period. The time span of this research focuses on the year 1348, and the comparison stretches up until the eighteenth century, out of which some of the later accounts originate. I opted for this geo-graphic region and this framework due to the fact that it provides me with the possibility of tracking the contemporary image of the Black Death in the Adriatic area and seeing how this image changed in the next four centuries. The focus of the later accounts becomes different, due to the passing of time and the fact that the authors did not have a first-hand experience of the epidemic. The greatest change though is visible in the nearly contemporary account A Cutheis Tabula, from Split, because the author’s familiarity with other contemporary sources and theories influenced the reasons for writing his narrative, as well as the employed imagery. |
| Supervisor | Szende, Katalin; Jaritz, Gerhard |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/laginja_matea.pdf |
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