The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

Literary Responses to the Black Death (1x19)

Data de estreia: Out 31, 2016

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.