Literary Reponses to the Black Death
(2017, original release: 2016)
Nonfiction
eCourse
Details
PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1349967
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
The events of the Black Death inspired some of history’s greatest literary masterpieces. In this lecture, uncover the range of textual responses to the plague, highlighting William Langland’s dream-vision poem Piers Plowman and Boccaccio’s Decameron. Learn how the plague set Geoffrey Chaucer on the path to literary immortality
In Process Record
Film
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English