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For Bergman, the outbreak of plague that hit Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century provided an obvious metaphor for the climate of existential angst and foreboding he was living through. Others made this link too. The American historian Barbara Tuchman not only describes the 1300s as a “violent, tormented, bewildered, suffering and disintegrating age” in which there was “no sense of an assured future,” she also argues that it was a “distant mirror” to our own troubled times.[1]
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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