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, the role of disease in history, and the impact of human history on the history of disease.

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and either HI 105, HI 108 or HU 203; or permission of the instructor.

Full course