BLACK DEATH AND MEDIEVAL LIFE THROUGH BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON

Name: BLACK DEATH AND MEDIEVAL LIFE THROUGH BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON
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LITTRANS/MEDIEVAL 255

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Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Black Death? Were our medieval and early-modern ancestors different from us, or are we challenged with similar problems? What can we learn from their lives? And, if we could, what could we teach each other? Discuss these topics while reading one of the world's greatest literary classics, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a text that will make us both laugh and cry. Through reading the Decameron, investigate medicine, art, culture, music, politics, religion, interpersonal and transcultural relations, warfare, fashion, gender and gender roles, as well as everyday life in the Middle Ages and early modernity. Also examines medieval written documents, twentieth-century feminist responses to the Decameron and filmic renditions of it, medieval frescoes, historical descriptions of the plague, and modern descriptions of, and reactions to, the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sophomore standing

충족 요건

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

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3.51

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수료율

100%

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71.43%

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