Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 10

Fiero 15

Questions

• How do we depict disaster and death?
• How do extreme social and individual events affect literature, art, and thought?

14th Century Europe

Disaster

• The Great Famine (1315- )
  • Great Famine & Black Death
    
    
• The Black Death (1347-1352)
  • Black Death
  • Black Death
  • Satan Triumphant: The Black Death
  • In the Wake of the Black Death
  • Boccaccio, Decameron
    • Decameron Web
    • Decameron Resources
  • Medieval Macabre

Ecclesiastical and Political upheaval and change

• 100 Years War (1337-1453)
  • 100 Years' War Web Page
  • Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
    • Joan of Arc
    • Joan of Arc Site
      
      
• Avignon Papacy (1309-1377)
  
  
• Philosophy, Religion, and Mysticism
  • Christine de Pizan
    • Christine de Pizan Web Page
  • Meister Eckhart
    • The Meister Eckhart Site
      • Eckhart's Web

Realism

• Geoffrey Chaucer, Cantebury Tales
  • Chaucer Metapage
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Electronic Canterbury Tales
  • Jane Zatta's Chaucer
    • Introduction, with audio
  • The Chaucer Pedagogy Page
• Langland, The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman

Outside of Europe

China: Ming Dynasty