5
The First Wave Sweeps across Europe
Lecture no. 5 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
Explore how the plague traveled by sea across the Mediterranean, invading port cities and then radiating inward. To get a view of the unfolding devastation, study the events in Sicily, Mallorca, and Avignon, highlighting first-person accounts. Assess ways of measuring the plague's impact and the difficulty of comprehending the scope of the disaster.
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
