Compact discs. Lecturer: Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University. "Course no. 8241." 24 lectures (30 minutes each). PDF disc contains course workbook. "Travel into a transformative moment in history and learn how the Black Death ignited processes that led to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and beyond"--Container.
Contents:
Disc 12. How the Black Death transformed the world. The epidemiology of plague -- Disc 2. Did plague really cause the Black Death? ; The Black Death's ports of entry -- Disc 3. The first wave sweeps across Europe ; The Black Death in Florence -- Disc 4. The Black Death in France ; The Black Death in Avignon -- Disc 5. The Black Death in England ; The Black Death in Walsham -- Disc 6. The Black Death in Scandinavia ; The end of the first wave -- Disc 7. Medieval theories about the Black Death ; Cultural reactions from flagellation to hedonism -- Disc 8. Jewish persecution during the Black Death ; Plague's effects on the medieval church -- Disc 9. Plague saints and popular religion ; Artistic responses to the Black Death -- Disc 10. Literary responses to the Black Death ; The economics of the Black Death -- Disc 11. The Black Death's political outcomes ; Communities that survived the first wave -- Disc 12. 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"--Container.
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