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4 videodiscs (628 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
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Lectures lcgft |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
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Great courses. History. Civilization & culture |
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Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.
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| System Details |
DVD, NTSC. |
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Title from container. |
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Coure no : 8260 |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Simon Doubleday, Professor of History at Hofstra University. |
| Summary |
Expand on--and even challenge--what you've learned about the Black Death and the medieval period with After the Plague, a 24-lecture course on the impact of the bubonic plague across the continent. With expert Simon Doubleday, professor of history at Hofstra University, explore the trajectory and after-effects of one of the deadliest pandemics in world history. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned |
| Bibliography |
Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202). |
| 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. |
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Black Death -- History -- Videodiscs.
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Plague -- Europe -- History -- Videodiscs.
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Europe -- History -- 14th century -- Videodiscs.
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lectures.
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Educational films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Lectures.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Doubleday, Simon R., lecturer.
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Teaching Company, production company, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781644652534 |
| Standard No. |
9781644652534 |
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