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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 24 Lessons (10h 28m) | Size: 9 GB
A wave of disease and death swept across Europe in the late medieval period, wreaking havoc on virtually every region and municipality. People from all walks of life were infected by fleas, rats, even their own family and friends, and developed a variety of terrifying symptoms: egg-sized lymph nodes, high fever, and delirium, among other troubling afflictions. Extreme suffering befell the continent as adults and children, Catholics and Muslims, lords and common folk alike succumbed to the so-called Pestilence.
But how did Europe's transformation unfold? What do we know about religious, social, political, and economic life after the outbreak of disease? How did groups on the fringes-women, Jews, Muslims, the poor, the outsiders of all types-fare during this tumultuous time? And what can the art and literature of the Middle Ages reveal about the human spirit in the face of this catastrophe?