After the plague

disc 1. Resilience: rethinking the Black Death ; Medieval globalization and the Black Death ; Death ships: the spread of plague in Europe ; Children, plague, and grief ; Famine, flood, and earthquakes ; Plague medicine: opium, gold, poison clouds --

disc 2. Filth: how medieval cities fought the plague ; Laughter and joy: Boccaccio's Decameron ; Wives, widows, and witches ; Justice in the age of Robin Hood ; Into the sky: how plague changed faith ; Astrology, apocalypse, and plague --

disc 3. Travel and wanderlust: Sir John Mandeville ; Plague in the Islamic world ; Jewish experiences of the Black Death ; Revolution in Rome: Cola di Rienzo ; Uprising in France: the Jacquerie ; England: the Black Death and economic change --

disc 4. The peasants' revolt: England 1381 ; The Arthurian Court of Richard II ; Plague, heresy, and the questioning spirit ; The passionate mystic: Margery Kempe ; The Canterbury Tales and the specter of death ; The plague and us: reaching across time.