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Plague Saints and Popular Religion
Lecture no. 17 from the course: The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
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Taught by Professor Dorsey Armstrong | 30 min | Categories: History
Religious devotion at the popular level proliferated during the Black Death. Follow the dramatic increase in activities such as religious pilgrimage, the building of chantry chapels, and the veneration of saints. Witness the struggle between the official Church doctrine and popular religious beliefs, as people searched desperately for comfort in their darkest hour.
24 Lectures
1
Europe on the Brink of the Black Death
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of 31 min
2
The Epidemiology of Plague
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of 29 min
3
Did Plague Really Cause the Black Death?
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of 32 min
4
The Black Death’s Ports of Entry
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of 31 min
5
The First Wave Sweeps across Europe
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of 30 min
6
The Black Death in Florence
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of 30 min
7
The Black Death in France
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of 29 min
8
The Black Death in Avignon
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of 30 min
9
The Black Death in England
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of 30 min
10
The Black Death in Walsham
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of 30 min
11
The Black Death in Scandinavia
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of 30 min
12
The End of the First Wave
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of 30 min
13
Medieval Theories about the Black Death
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of 29 min
14
Cultural Reactions from Flagellation to Hedonism
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of 32 min
15
Jewish Persecution during the Black Death
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of 32 min
16
Plague’s Effects on the Medieval Church
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of 31 min
17
Plague Saints and Popular Religion
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of 30 min
18
Artistic Responses to the Black Death
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of 32 min
19
Literary Responses to the Black Death
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of 30 min
20
The Economics of the Black Death
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of 30 min
21
The Black Death’s Political Outcomes
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of 31 min
22
Communities That Survived the First Wave
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of 30 min
23
Later Plague Outbreaks: 1353-1666
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of 31 min
24
How the Black Death Transformed the World
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of 32 min
