The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague Season 1 Episode 19 Literary Reponses to the Black Death

TV-PG
November 1, 2016
29 min

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.

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