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Sep 11, 2024
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HIS 377 - Plague, Famine, Calamity and Response in European History (3)This course explores moments in European History in which humanity found itself directly threatened by plague, pestilence, famine, and other natural calamities. We explore the causes and history of these moments, but also focus on the response to such tragic events both in their historical context as well as our present-day understanding of these events. The course begins in Antiquity but spends much of the course in the Modern Era and movements such as the Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Urbanization create the “modern” society we all live in today. It is also during this period that we see the rise of new “schools” and “fields” designed to respond to the new challenges such as ecology, sociology, urbanology, and even modern medicine.
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