"Dear Boccaccio": Teaching the Black Death Online during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The article focuses on teaching the Black Death online during the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The author discusses the reading of Giovanni Boccaccio's book "The Decameron," the modern epidemiology of "Yersinia pestis" and plague historiography, and explains the coursework s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2020
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| In: |
The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Pages: 161-163 |
| Further subjects: | B
HISTORY education in universities & colleges
B Pandemics B YERSINIA pestis B HISTORY of the plague B BLACK Death pandemic, 1348-1351 B DECAMERON (Book : Boccaccio) B Covid-19 Pandemic |
| Summary: | The article focuses on teaching the Black Death online during the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The author discusses the reading of Giovanni Boccaccio's book "The Decameron," the modern epidemiology of "Yersinia pestis" and plague historiography, and explains the coursework she assigns to her students. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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