The Black Death : the World's Most Devastating Plague

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Call Number: DVD 614.573 Ar Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / Health & Fitness / Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Title from disc surface.
"Course no. 8241."
Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes.
"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.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Disc 1. Europe on the brink of the Black Death -- 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.
Lecturer: Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The Black Death. submitted by yufamily on July 19, 2023, 11:54am It’s refreshing for Dorsey Armstrong to admit she was wrong about important facts regarding and make corrections. Actually, scientific “facts” are often proven wrong later.