War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Peoples & Things
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How Do You Write a Book About Plague?
i'm very interested in how people communicate and how they do things with words. And so i was looking at different kinds of sources i could use to get at how people talk. Then ive, my adviser at the time, told me about a this canonization inquest. People are giving big, you know, are long testimonies. There's lots of interesting people involved. You should take a look at this source. Thisis canto be the best source ever. But then i go through it and find almost no one mentions the plague. So i sort of had to reassess what i was doing and realize that they're talking more about war and confession as these dangers that they're living
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