The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

Taught by a celebrated medievalist, go on an unforgettable excursion into the time period of the plague, its full human repercussions, and its transformative effects on European civilization.

• By This Professor
• 01: Europe on the Brink of the Black Death
• 02: The Epidemiology of Plague
• 03: Did Plague Really Cause the Black Death?
• 04: The Black Death’s Ports of Entry
• 05: The First Wave Sweeps across Europe
• 06: The Black Death in Florence
• 07: The Black Death in France
• 08: The Black Death in Avignon
• 09: The Black Death in England
• 10: The Black Death in Walsham
• 11: The Black Death in Scandinavia
• 12: The End of the First Wave
• 13: Medieval Theories about the Black Death
• 14: Cultural Reactions from Flagellation to Hedonism
• 15: Jewish Persecution during the Black Death
• 16: Plague’s Effects on the Medieval Church
• 17: Plague Saints and Popular Religion
• 18: Artistic Responses to the Black Death
• 19: Literary Responses to the Black Death
• 20: The Economics of the Black Death
• 21: The Black Death’s Political Outcomes
• 22: Communities That Survived the First Wave
• 23: Later Plague Outbreaks: 1353-1666
• 24: How the Black Death Transformed the World