Name: The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
Released: 2016-05-27T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Dorsey Armstrong

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The story, scope and effects of the Black Death; understanding the unfolding of the plague and its aftermath; a revealing window into the medieval world; the forces that brought about the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and modernity.

Educational · 2016 · 31 min

Starring Dorsey Armstrong

EPISODE 1

Europe on the Brink of the Black Death

Contemplating the enormity of the Black Death's impact on the medieval world; taking account of the state of medieval society on the eve of the plague; investigating the religious, economic, and political structures of mid-14th-century Europe.

30 min · 27 May 2016
EPISODE 2

The Epidemiology of Plague

Exploring the medical understanding of the plague; the sixth-century Plague of Justinian; the Black Death of the 1300s; the 19th-century Third Pandemic; examining the three predominant varieties of plague and their symptomatologies.

29 min · 1 Nov 2016
EPISODE 3

Did Plague Really Cause the Black Death?

Reassessing the causes of the Black Death; questioning how it spread through medieval Europe with astonishing speed and virulence; investigating additional factors that may have contributed to the devastation, such as other diseases and bacteria.

31 min · 1 Nov 2016
EPISODE 4

The Black Death's Ports of Entry

Examining the plague's first sustained appearance in Europe; the Mongol siege that preceded the outbreak; how the plague moved west with escaping sailors; following the spread of the plague to Constantinople, Italy, France and England.

31 min · 1 Nov 2016
EPISODE 5

The First Wave Sweeps Across Europe

How the plague traveled by sea across the Mediterranean, invading port cities and then radiating inward; studying events in Sicily, Mallorca and Avignon; highlighting first-person accounts; assessing ways of measuring the plague's impact.

29 min · 1 Nov 2016
EPISODE 6

The Black Death in Florence

How Florence, the most advanced community in medieval Europe, dealt with the effects of the plague; the extraordinary and diverse responses of citizens; how leaders took steps to slow the spread of the disease and prevent the breakdown of the city.

30 min · 1 Nov 2016

Dorsey Armstrong

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