01 December 2009

Readings for Black Death Book

In the interests of making the most out of the little time we have left I'm going to narrow the focus of our discussion of the Black Death book to the cultural response, which will fit in well with the more general "collapse of the medieval synthesis" that is the subject of your final. Therefore, we will give particular focus to Parts 5-7, which covers some of the episodes of mass hysteria as well as artistic representations of the plague. It should be fun...

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