<p>With Geoffrey Chaucer’s <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> as your portal into a medieval Europe in the throes of the disease, explore how people across the continent reckoned with and responded to the new political, economic, and social realities that emerged during the Black Death.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Resilience: Rethinking the Black Death
- 02: Medieval Globalization and the Black Death
- 03: Death Ships: The Spread of Plague in Europe
- 04: Children, Plague, and Grief
- 05: Famine, Flood, and Earthquakes
- 06: Plague Medicine: Opium, Gold, Poison Clouds
- 07: Filth: How Medieval Cities Fought the Plague
- 08: Laughter and Joy: Boccaccio’s Decameron
- 09: Wives, Widows, and Witches
- 10: Justice in the Age of Robin Hood
- 11: Into the Sky: How Plague Changed Faith
- 12: Astrology, Apocalypse, and Plague
- 13: Travel and Wanderlust: Sir John Mandeville
- 14: Plague in the Islamic World
- 15: Jewish Experiences of the Black Death
- 16: Revolution in Rome: Cola di Rienzo
- 17: Uprising in France: The Jacquerie
- 18: England: The Black Death and Economic Change
- 19: The Peasants’ Revolt: England 1381
- 20: The Arthurian Court of Richard II
- 21: Plague, Heresy, and the Questioning Spirit
- 22: The Passionate Mystic: Margery Kempe
- 23: The Canterbury Tales and the Specter of Death
- 24: The Plague and Us: Reaching across Time
Taught by
Simon Doubleday
