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The Epidemiology of Plague
Lecture no. 2 from the course: The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
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Taught by Professor Dorsey Armstrong | 29 min | Categories: History
Explore the medical understanding of plague, as seen in the 6th-century Plague of Justinian, the Black Death of the 1300s, and the 19th-century Third Pandemic. Examine the three predominant varieties of plague, the symptomatology of each, and scientific theories as to the nature and transmission of the disease that ravaged Europe in the 14th century.
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
