Eva Jarosova
King Pest & his theatre Europe: Plague epidemics in history with respect to Bohemia & Central Europe
Eva Jarošová, PhD candidate in History at Charles University
In 1348, Europe encountered the experience of Black Death. An epidemic of bubonic plague that changed the face of the Old Continent for good. How was this change? And how did our predecessors deal with it? What was their response to the epidemic?
Mgr. Eva Jarošová, is a PhD candidate in History at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the funeral culture of the early modern period. This phenomenon she discovered while doing undergrad research on plague epidemics which she finds fascinating. Now she examines attitudes towards death and dying mostly on the example of material culture made of tombstones and epitaphs. She also enjoys teaching Czech history to exchange students at the Charles University, which she finds greatly inspirational. In her free time she is engaged in historical reenactment of the 15th, 16th, and the first half of the 17th century -- a way to supplement the traditional and "boring" scholar´s point of view on history.