The plague in Antiquity, in the Middle Ages, or in the 18th century.
Three page essay on the plague in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, or the 18th century. Examples of topics:
(1) Comparison of a text from the Bible and Antiquity with a text from Middle Ages
(2) Commentary on Boccaccio’s text on the Black Plague with discussion of the medical theories of the time
(3) La pleste de Marseille, 1720 (4) Devotions to St. Roch and St. Sebastian.
(4) The history of lazaretto and other treatments (5) The dance of death (6) Yersin and the discovery of the plague bacillus
