ClassInfo - Spring 2021 Art History Classes

Spring 2021 | ARTH 1913 Section 001: Plague, Death, and Art in the Middle Ages (66713)

Instructor(s): Jennifer Awes-Freeman
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: Freshman Seminar
Online Course
Enrollment Requirements:: Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021

Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (12 of 20 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: The bubonic plague of the Middle Ages - commonly known as the Black Death - took the lives of some two-hundred million people in Eurasia and Africa, making it the deadliest pandemic on record. Focusing on the plague's peak in the fourteenth century, this seminar will engage art and material culture, as well as primary texts in translation, to study how the plague impacted daily life in the Middle Ages and affected cosmology, religious practices, and conceptions of death for centuries thereafter. The course will also engage methods and theories of environmental history and global history to better understand the scope of the pandemic. Students will learn how to analyze images, how to conduct research with historical sources, and will gain academic reading skills. We will also consider what the Middle Ages has to do with the modern era.
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