Cultural and Intellectual Responses to the Black Death

From the fall of the Roman Empire to the "Age of Translations," Western Europe endeavored to rise above the so-called cultural and intellectual "Dark Ages." That advancement was threatened with the arrival of the Black Death in 1347. Chapter one details the correlation between the spread of the plague and the location of the first universities. It also examines the expansion of the university system throughout the continent in the wake of the plague. The second chapter looks at the cultural, especially religious, explanations of and responses to the Black Death. It examines how medieval society used the religious tools at their disposal to combat the "evils" of the plague.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.available

2009

Author dc:creator

• Yurochko, Brian David

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jotham Parsons
• Madeline Archer

• Black Death
• Iconography
• Plague
• Sebastian
• University

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1396

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2412