Taught by a celebrated medievalist, go on an unforgettable excursion into the time period of the plague, its full human repercussions, and its transformative effects on European civilization.
The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Europe on the Brink of the Black Death
- 02: The Epidemiology of Plague
- 03: Did Plague Really Cause the Black Death?
- 04: The Black Death’s Ports of Entry
- 05: The First Wave Sweeps across Europe
- 06: The Black Death in Florence
- 07: The Black Death in France
- 08: The Black Death in Avignon
- 09: The Black Death in England
- 10: The Black Death in Walsham
- 11: The Black Death in Scandinavia
- 12: The End of the First Wave
- 13: Medieval Theories about the Black Death
- 14: Cultural Reactions from Flagellation to Hedonism
- 15: Jewish Persecution during the Black Death
- 16: Plague’s Effects on the Medieval Church
- 17: Plague Saints and Popular Religion
- 18: Artistic Responses to the Black Death
- 19: Literary Responses to the Black Death
- 20: The Economics of the Black Death
- 21: The Black Death’s Political Outcomes
- 22: Communities That Survived the First Wave
- 23: Later Plague Outbreaks: 1353-1666
- 24: How the Black Death Transformed the World
Taught by
Dorsey Armstrong
