Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Famine, Warfare, and Plague in 14th-Century England
Instructor(s): Erica Bastress-Dukehart, History
The fourteenth 世纪 in England was a time of famine and disease, of chivalry, art, new architecture, the end of the Crusades, and prolonged and bloody battles with France. If someone living at the beginning of the 世纪 survived famine and warfare, it was likely that they succumbed to the plague that crept onto England’s shores three decades later. London’s back alleys were alive with beggars, pickpockets, and gamers; knights jousted at the Tower of London; and the Church dominated people’s spiritual 生活. In the fourteenth 世纪 London was the place to be. This is an interdisciplinary course that asks students to formulate types of questions posed by disciplines ranging from history and art history to architecture, literature, and archeology. 学生 will employ various modes of inquiry to analyze what historians have called the “calamitous 14th 世纪.” 学生 in this class will engage both critically and analytically with the city of London and with primary and secondary sources, maps, and art.
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