The Black Death: The World’s Most Devastating Plague

Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Scope
Lecture 1—Europe on the Brink of the Black Death
Lecture 2—The Epidemiology of Plague
Lecture 3—Did Plague Really Cause the Black Death?
Lecture 4—The Black Death’s Ports of Entry
Lecture 5—The First Wave Sweeps across Europe
Lecture 6—The Black Death in Florence
Lecture 7—The Black Death in France
Lecture 8—The Black Death in Avignon
Lecture 9—The Black Death in England
Lecture 10—The Black Death in Walsham
Lecture 11—The Black Death in Scandinavia
Lecture 12—The End of the First Wave
Lecture 13—Medieval Theories about the Black Death
Lecture 14—Cultural Reactions from Flagellation to Hedonism
Lecture 15—Jewish Persecution during the Black Death
Lecture 16—Plague’s Effects on the Medieval Church
Lecture 17—Plague Saints and Popular Religion
Lecture 18—Artistic Responses tothe Black Death
Lecture 19—Literary Responses to the Black Death
Lecture 20—The Economics of the Black Death
Lecture 21—The Black Death’s Political Outcomes
Lecture 22—Communities That Survived the First Wave
Lecture 23—Later Plague Outbreaks: 1353–1666
Lecture 24—How the Black Death Transformed the World
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