HI 345 - The Black Death

An interdisciplinary study of disease in Europe before, during, and after the outbreak of the plague pandemic in the mid-fourteenth century. Among the topics examined are the causes and spread of the contagion throughout Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century, the outbreak of peasant revolts, the effect of the plague on painting and literature, and the role of disease in history.

Prerequisites: HI 105 or HI 108 or HU 101

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