FS 012 PZ -Pandemic Histories

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Pandemic Histories: Europe During and After the Black Death In 1347, the Black Death reached Mediterranean Europe and, within a few years, killed over half of Europes population. What were important impacts of the pandemic? How did people respond to the experience? By 1351, Giovanni Boccaccio had written a wildly popular fictional work the Decameron (Ten Days) - in which 10 young women and men shelter in the countryside and pass the time by telling stories filled with humor, sex, violence, deceit, virtue, or pathos. To explore the pandemics impacts, well read the Decameron in conjunction with historical investigations of the Black Deaths social and cultural consequences.

Prerequisite(s): None

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