History Litriture Analysis: Do you Agree with Tuchman Definition of " Truth" (Essay Sample)

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Truth, as contextualized by Barbara, is the accurate representation of facts without exaggeration or understatement. As the historian finds out, truth is a collection of many small scenes captured and kept by different people. The pieces have to be brought together to obtain one exact image which can be shaken, disturbed and its clarity is lost again. The truth is separate and subjective (Tuchman 1962, 96).The black death caused panic and people were drawing possibilities out of speculation maybe because the people of that time had no technology and medical competency to make reasonable hypothesis but there was no way flies could cross the sea to North Africa in such a short time. Flies did not spread the disease, and it was airborne as a very wide area was covered in short time. Although science crib to the idea that the diseases originated from rat fleas, it could take ages for merchants to carry the pests across the sea, let alone the time it would take to multiply to a big number that would take out the entire country. In the subject story, the estimates of the people killed by the mysterious plague can be believed but claims that groups (like peasants and low-income individuals) shouldered heavier burden lack substantiating facts (Tuchman, 1978, 411-416).
Events like the Black Death are not likely to ever happen again. Many factors may prevent the spread of such a mysterious disease, but the expanding knowledge in medicine and genetics takes much credit. There are better healthcare systems that will enable quarantine of patients with the unknown illness. The development of vaccines has probably prevented uncountable risks of the spread of known diseases. A thousand years ago may mean a thousand years back in everything in healthcare technology today. So this world is left to God’s mercy of natural disasters like storms and climatic changes and not a plagu...