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The black death [videorecording (DVD)] : new lessons from recent research / Dorsey Armstrong.

by Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970-

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The Teaching Company, 2022.

DVD 614.5732 A735b

Black Death -- History.

Communicable diseases -- History.

Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The black death [videorecording (DVD)] : new lessons from recent research

[videorecording (DVD)] :

1 videodisc (165 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 book (ii, 55 p. : b&w ill. ; 19 cm.)

Course no 30400.

Closed-captioned.

Reassessing the Black Death -- A deeper dive into rat and flea behavior -- Human-to-human plague transmission -- Plague, grain, and the Mongols -- The Big Bang of the Black Death -- The fate of the plague's survivors -- The old world falls away.

Lecturer: Dorsey Armstrong, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Purdue University.

Since March 2022, the world has experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine more than 400 years of the bubonic plague that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. We thought we knew its causes. In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, medievalist Dorsey Armstrong robustly describes plague biology, correcting inaccurate pandemic explanations. COVID-19 isn't likely to be humanity's last experience with a zoonotic disease. What can we learn now from these two pandemics?

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