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The Black Death

Learn about the culprits behind the devastating Black Death of 1347-1351, from famine in 1315-1317 to the spread of the bubonic plague. Explore the symptoms, historical attempts to stop the disease, and the profound impact on society. Discover how the mortality rate reached up to 70%, causing political, economic, and social upheaval.

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The Black Death

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  1. The Black Death 1347 - 1351 Mr. Semien – with credits to Ms. Susan M. Pojer ofHorace Greeley HS

  2. The Culprits

  3. The Famine of 1315-1317 • By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate. • A population crisis developed. • Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between 1315-17 because of excessive rain. • As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died. • One consequence ofstarvation & povertywas susceptibility todisease.

  4. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

  5. The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemic Form:almost 100% mortality rate (death rate).

  6. From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411

  7. Lancing a Buboe

  8. The Disease Cycle Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria. Bacteria multiply in flea’s gut. Human is infected! Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound. Flea’s gut cloggedwith bacteria.

  9. Medieval Art & the Plague

  10. Medieval Art & the Plague Bring out your dead!

  11. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death. (French Catacombs)

  12. Boccaccio in The Decameron “The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.” How would you interpret this quote?

  13. The DanseMacabre (Le danse macabre)

  14. Attempts to Stop the Plague “Leeching” A Doctor’s Robe

  15. Attempts to Stop the Plague Flagellanti:Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!

  16. Attempts to Stop the Plague Pogromsagainst the Jews “Golden Circle” obligatory badge “Jew” hat

  17. Death Triumphant !:A Major Artistic Theme

  18. A Little Macabre Ditty “A sickly season,” the merchant said,“The town I left was filled with dead,and everywhere these queer red fliescrawled upon the corpses’ eyes,eating them away.”“Fair make you sick,” the merchant said,“They crawled upon the wine and bread.Pale priests with oil and books,bulging eyes and crazy looks,dropping like the flies.”

  19. A Little Macabre Ditty (2) “I had to laugh,” the merchant said,“The doctors purged, and dosed, and bled;“And proved through solemn disputation“The cause lay in some constellation.“Then they began to die.”“First they sneezed,” the merchant said,“And then they turned the brightest red,Begged for water, then fell back.With bulging eyes and face turned black,they waited for the flies.”

  20. A Little Macabre Ditty (3) “I came away,” the merchant said,“You can’t do business with the dead.“So I’ve come here to ply my trade.“You’ll find this to be a fine brocade…” And then hesneezed……….!

  21. The Mortality Rate 35% - 70% 25,000,000 dead !!!

  22. What were thepolitical,economic,and social effectsof the Black Death??

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