Brief description
This module will introduce, by way of close discussion of the Black Death, important aspects of the political, social, and economic history of fourteenth and fifteenth century England and Wales. Comparison of the experience of European countries will also be made. The module will present students with the opportunity, through essays and seminars, to tackle such issues as historical causality, and attention will be given to the different explanations which historians have offered in attempting to accommodate the devastating impact of plague within their own models of change or continuity in late medieval England and Wales. Students, while developing their own skills of presentation and argument, will also be encouraged to discuss historians? use of sources and methodologies.