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The Black Death [videorecording (DVD)] : the world's most devastating plague / Dorsey Armstrong.

by Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970-

Teaching Company, 2016.

DVD 940.192 A735b

Black Death -- History.

Plague -- History.

Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The Black Death [videorecording (DVD)] :h the world's most devastating plague

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 187 pages : ill.)

Course no. 8241.

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Closed-captioned.

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.

"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.

Films for the hearing impaired.

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