Posted by Sterling on 10/7/2011, 11:46:54, in reply to "Re: Journal of the Plague Year"
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I have finished it, and I have some comments to make. I will save them until everyone has finished. It's actually short, although not exactly a quick read.
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: I started it yesterday and it looks very interesting. My
: Spanish edition has an excellent introduction, on
: which I will comment later. Anybody else?
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: I will probably start reading our July selection late
: today or tomorrow. In the meantime I've discovered an
: interesting related resource. Among the latest
: additions to the Open Yale Courses, which are free
: videos of actual class lectures, there is a history
: course titled "Epidemics in Western Society Since
: 1600." Defoe's book is the first reading
: assignment in that class. Lectures 1 & 2 are
: introductory, and lectures 3, 4 and 5 deal
: specifically with plague.
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: http://oyc.yale.edu/history/epidemics-in-western-society-since-1600
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