ISBN: 9781644652534

Description:

• 4 videodiscs (628 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• digital video
• videodisc
• NTSC
• video file
• DVD video
• region 1
• polychrome

Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR

Notes:

• Title from container.
• Coure no : 8260
• Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202).
• Lecturer: Simon Doubleday, Professor of History at Hofstra University.
• DVD, NTSC.
• Closed-captioned

Contents:

• 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.

Publisher or Distributor Number: 15155564

Control Number: 3200431

UPC:

• 978164465253
• 978164465253

Series:

• Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.
• Great courses. History. Civilization & culture

Subjects:

• Black Death -- History.
• Europe -- History -- 14th century.
• Plague -- Europe -- History.

Genre:

• Educational films.
• Lectures.
• Nonfiction films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

• Doubleday, Simon R., lecturer.
• Teaching Company, production company, publisher.