Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire

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The title above derives from Margaret Atwood's essay of the same name in which the author suggests that 'not just some, but all writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing is motivated, deep down, by a fear of and a fascination with mortality.'

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