Unit name | The Black Death in England |
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Unit code | HIST20125 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Smith |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit aims to provide students with insights into the course and consequences of the Black Death in England from its first appearance in 1348-9 up to the sixteenth century, when population levels finally began to recover. The unit considers the impact of pestilence on a wide range of aspects of late medieval English life: politics; agricultural practices; town-life; the role of women; religious devotion; medical thought; diet; dress; charity; literary and artistic fashions; international trade; warfare, and social relations.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1 x 2hr Seminar per week
1 x 1hr Seminar per week
Bruce M. S. Campbell, Land and People in Late Medieval England (Farnham, 2009)
Barbara A. Hanawalt, Ceremony and Civility: 'Civic Culture in Late Medieval London (Oxford, 2017)
Gerald Harriss, Shaping the Nation: 'England' 1360–1461 (Oxford, 2005)
Barbara Harvey, Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience (Oxford, 1993)
Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod (eds.), A Social History of 'England', 1200–1500 (Cambridge, 2006)
Mark Ormrod and Phillip Lindley (eds.), The Black Death in England (Donington, 1996)