After the plague
DVD - 2022
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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- Genres
- Educational films
History
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Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Instructional films - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses
[2022]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Civilization & culture"--Cover.
"Course no. 8260"--Container and disc labels.
Originally produced in 2021.
24 lectures lasting approximately 26 minutes each.
Program content: ©2022. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (628 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.
- Bibliography
- Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202).
- ISBN
- 9781644652534
- 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.