"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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Main Author: Petitjean, Beth (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2020
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
Online Access: Volltext (Lizenzpflichtig)
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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.
ISSN:2326-0726
Contains:Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal