The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
Literary Responses to the Black Death
S1 • E19 Oct 30, 2016 31m
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.