Title from disc surface. Course no. 8241. 24 lectures (30 min. each). Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187). Lecturer: Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University.
Contents:
Disc 4. How the Black Death transformed the world. The epidemiology of plague ; Did plague really cause the Black Death? ; The Black Death's ports of entry ; The first wave sweeps across Europe ; The Black Death in Florence -- Disc 2. The Black Death in France ; The Black Death in Avignon ; The Black Death in England ; The Black Death in Walsham ; The Black Death in Scandinavia ; The end of the first wave -- Disc 3. Medieval theories about the Black Death ; Cultural reactions from Flagellation to hedonism ; Jewish persecution during the Black Death ; Plague's effects on the medieval church ; Plague saints and popular religion ; Artistic responses to the Black Death -- Disc 4. Literary responses to the Black Death ; The economics of the Black Death ; The Black Death's political outcomes ; Communities that survived the first wave ; Later plague outbreaks: 1353-1666 ; How the Black Death transformed the world.
Summary:
Travel into a transformative moment in history and learn how the Black Death ignited processes that led to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and beyond.
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