Black Death Continued and an Overview of Research Assignment Step #5
Slides:
#19-Black Death con’t and exam prep
Lecture:
- November 18th at 10:30 am
- No reading.
FOCUS: Spices, the First Global Commodity
Slides:
#20-Spices, the first Global Commodity
Lecture:
- November 20th at 10:30 am
- No reading.
Assignments
- Don’t forget to submit your answer to our weekly discussion question on Moodle! You have until Sunday November 24th at midnight to get it done.
Tutorials this week
Tutorials this week will focus on Crusades and the Black Death.
Readings (all in Sources for the Frameworks of World History):
- 12.1a “The Siege of Antioch” from the Chronicle by Fulcher of Chartres
- 12.1b “The Siege of Antioch” from The Perfect History by Ibn al-Athir
- 13.2a The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
- 13.3a The Decameron by Boccaccio
Questions to think about:
- Fulcher of Chartres and Ibn al-Athir provide us with two different perspectives on a specific event in the First Crusade: the Siege of Antioch. Fulcher writes from the perspective of the European Christian forces who were victorious and Ibn al-Athir is writing as a historian looking back at an event 100 years ago where the Muslim forces lost (but were since victorious and during his lifetime, held the upper hand in this geographic area). Yet both these documents are equally useful for our understanding of the First Crusade. Why and how?
- What types of explanations did people in Christian Italy and Muslim southern Spain have for the Black Death? What aspects of their societies influenced those explanations?