After the plague

DVD 2021

Expand on--and even challenge--what you've learned about the Black Death and the medieval period with After the Plague, a 24-lecture course on the impact of the bubonic plague across the continent. With expert Simon Doubleday, professor of history at Hofstra University, explore the trajectory and after-effects of one of the deadliest pandemics in world history.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Black Death History

Europe History 14th century

Plague Europe History

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Educational films Lectures Nonfiction films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture Great courses. History. Civilization & culture

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ISBN:

9781644652534

Description:

4 videodiscs (628 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
digital video
videodisc
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

Title from container
Coure no : 8260
Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202)
Lecturer: Simon Doubleday, Professor of History at Hofstra University
DVD, NTSC
Closed-captioned

Contents:

disc 1. Resilience: rethinking the Black Death ; Medieval globalization and the Black Death ; Death ships: the spread of plague in Europe ; Children, plague, and grief ; Famine, flood, and earthquakes ; Plague medicine: opium, gold, poison clouds
disc 2. Filth: how medieval cities fought the plague ; Laughter and joy: Boccaccio's Decameron ; Wives, widows, and witches ; Justice in the age of Robin Hood ; Into the sky: how plague changed faith ; Astrology, apocalypse, and plague
disc 3. Travel and wanderlust: Sir John Mandeville ; Plague in the Islamic world ; Jewish experiences of the Black Death ; Revolution in Rome: Cola di Rienzo ; Uprising in France: the Jacquerie ; England: the Black Death and economic change
disc 4. The peasants' revolt: England 1381 ; The Arthurian Court of Richard II ; Plague, heresy, and the questioning spirit ; The passionate mystic: Margery Kempe ; The Canterbury Tales and the specter of death ; The plague and us: reaching across time

Control Number:

3200431

UPC:

978164465253

Other Authors:

Doubleday, Simon R., lecturer
Teaching Company, production company, publisher

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