Myths about how the Black Death travelled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found. Modern portrayals of the plague quickly moving across the continent, following
I don’t know—Ibn al-Wardi was writing while the Black Death was ongoing, to an audience that had just experienced it first-hand. Even if he was adapting the narrative to literary conventions, it doesn’t seem like he could have distorted the events much without getting called out for it.
I don’t know—Ibn al-Wardi was writing while the Black Death was ongoing, to an audience that had just experienced it first-hand. Even if he was adapting the narrative to literary conventions, it doesn’t seem like he could have distorted the events much without getting called out for it.