Dead Letters: Teaching Early Modern Media Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The article discusses the author's views about the teaching of an online Early Modern Media in the Digital Age seminar to students at the U.S. Naval Academy during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it mentions the Danse macabre 1499 woodcut image from printer Mathias Huss. Mortality is examined, along...

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Main Author: Ward, Thomas M. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2020
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Pages: 71-76
Further subjects:B DANCE of death
B MASS media education
B DIGITAL media
B online education
B 15TH century woodcutting
B College teaching
B DEFOE, Daniel, ca. 1661-1731
B Covid-19 Pandemic
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Summary:The article discusses the author's views about the teaching of an online Early Modern Media in the Digital Age seminar to students at the U.S. Naval Academy during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it mentions the Danse macabre 1499 woodcut image from printer Mathias Huss. Mortality is examined, along with depictions of the 1665 plague in London, England by writers Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe. Distance learning and the final project for the seminar are assessed.
ISSN:2326-0726
Contains:Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal