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The Teaching Company (2022) The Great Courses
Description
Since March 2022, the world has experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine more than 400 years of the bubonic plague that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. We thought we knew its causes. In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, medievalist Dorsey Armstrong robustly describes plague biology, correcting inaccurate pandemic explanations. COVID-19 isn't likely to be humanity's last experience with a zoonotic disease. What can we learn now from these two pandemics?
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LibraryThing member A.Godhelm
Great update to a course that had me hooked, with the unfortunate consequence of making a lot of what made that course fascinating invalid. Also suffers from being released (clearly in a clever marketing motivated move) at the height of the corona years, which has already and will undoubtedly
A do-over or synthesis updating the old course would have been better.
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continue to date the material horribly. A do-over or synthesis updating the old course would have been better.
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Language
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English
ISBN
9781644652770
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Book plus DVD. A Great Courses update based on recent microbiological research on the plague bacteria isolated from plague pits. Many of the ideas previously held about plague, in particular, its origins in the siege of Caffa, have been reassessed. The course consists of seven lectures, including maps and illustrations. There is also a slim paperback volume summarizing each lecture. The lectures were produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, which provides relevant comparisons with the medieval pandemic.