الطاعون ؛ الصورة والخيال – من العصور الوسطى إلى العصور

What do we know about the plague? What feelings does the mere mention of its name evoke in us? Why and how did the plague become associated in the collective human imagination with the wrath of God?

What role did religions play in the widespread perception that the spread of the plague is linked to sin and the commission of transgressions? And did other non-Abrahamic religions make such a connection?

How did people in ancient civilizations view the plague from the perspective of religion, magic, and medical prevention?

Why have Europeans always linked the plague to the East, going so far as to claim that the East is the source of the plague? This happened in the time of Justinian in the sixth century AD, and continued during the time of the Ottoman Empire, while in modern times the West went so far as to claim that the Covid epidemic originated in China, and that AIDS, which preceded it, had originated in Africa.

This book explores the story of the plague in the human imagination through documents, historical sources, literary works and paintings. How did humans view it? How did they understand it? How did they deal with it?

A rare topic in the Arabic library, and indeed the global library, was addressed by a group of the most important university professors and multidisciplinary researchers in the United Kingdom.

This book is for the intellectual interested in the history of ideas, as well as for historians of art and literature, and undoubtedly comes within the priorities of those working in the field of the history of medicine and societies