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After the Plague

Series: After the Plague
4.4
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Episodes
24
Rating
NRC
Year
2022
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

With Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as your portal into a medieval Europe in the throes of the disease, explore how people across the continent reckoned with and responded to the new political, economic, and social realities that emerged during the Black Death.

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Episodes

1 to 3 of 24

1. Resilience: Rethinking the Black Death

25m

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Explore the Black Death's pathology and symptoms, and dive briefly into Chaucer's childhood.

2. Medieval Globalization and the Black Death

28m

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Investigate the public health consequences of globalization in the medieval period.

3. Death Ships: The Spread of Plague in Europe

28m

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What did the plague's path on the continent look like? How quickly or slowly did it spread?

4. Children, Plague, and Grief

27m

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Investigate the bubonic plague's effect on children and how whole towns cared for orphans.

5. Famine, Flood, and Earthquakes

26m

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Explore how responses to three different kinds of disasters helped Europe mobilize against the plague.

6. Plague Medicine: Opium, Gold, Poison Clouds

26m

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Explore the role of religion, astrology, environment, and diet in medieval medicine.

Extended Details

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Artists

The Great Coursesdirector
The Great Coursesproducer
Simon Doubledayactor