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Weekend Seminar 2002 The Plagues of the Middle Ages
February 1 - 2, 2002 Anthropology Building, Room 163 The Black Death is one of the topics from the Middle Ages which has held a fascination for the general public. In the space of about a year, 1348-49, one-third to one-half of the entire population of Europe was wiped out. The scale of the plague's impact and its precise character remain points of debate and research. Scholars have attributed the plague to a serious impact on medieval art, literature, and scientific inquiry, as well as even more fundamental changes in ideas about life, death, and man's relationship to God. The economic dislocation alone played a significant role in undermining the ordered society of the medieval world. The topic of the plagues in the Middle Ages, therefore, engages a wide array of important topics in the humanities.
Lecture Schedule
07:00 - 07:30 Definitions and Parameters: The Biology of the Plague 07:30 - 08:30 Before the Black Death: Famine and Resistance in Medieval Europe 09:00 - 10:00 Iconographic Images of the Plague 10:15 - 11:15 God and the Animals: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century 11:30 - 12:30 Living with the Plague : Medical, Governmental, and Popular Responses 12:30 - 02:00 Break 02:00 - 03:00 Plague and the Medical Doctor: Helpless and Hopeless? 03:15 - 04:30 The Plague and Other Plagues in Contemporary New Mexico: Causes,
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| Institute for Medieval Studies University of New Mexico 2045 Mesa Vista Hall | (505) 277-2252 | medinst@unm.edu |
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