Fiction as History: The Black Death and Beyond.
Storytellers, chroniclers, poets, propagandists, playwrights, novelists and screenwriters have all drawn freely from history's limitless supply of characters, events and context, and in recent years the demand for historical fiction has soared. While historians should welcome the increasing populari...
| Publicado en: | History Vol. 97; no. 325; pp. 3 - 24 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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