Late Middle Ages (ca. 1320-1430)


German woodcut, Dance of Death (1493)

  • Dante's Inferno, Cantos I and XXVIII
  • The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
  • The Black Death: A Personal History [History & Fiction] (2008)
  • "Shifting Explanations for the Black Death" (2005)
  • "Death Rides a Rat" (1983)
  • Sources on the Black Death
  • Source Analysis: Responses to Plague
  • French Illuminated Manuscript (15th century)
  • The Black Death (Powerpoint)
  • "Henry V: Two Films" (1995)
  • "Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt" (NYT, October 2009)
  • Hollywood & History: "Woad Warrior"
  • Military Revolutions (14th-17th centuries)
  • Excerpts from Knights (2001) by Andrea Hopkins
  • Excerpts from The Face of Battle (1976) by John Keegan
  • Primary Source Interpretation (Powerpoint)
  • Selected Web Resources