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The Black Death

The Black Death. 1347 - 1351. The Culprits. 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.

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The Black Death

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  1. The Black Death 1347 - 1351

  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.

  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.

  12. Boccaccio in The Decameron The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.

  13. The Danse Macabre

  14. Spread through Europe

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

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

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

  18. Death Triumphant !:A Major Artistic Theme

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

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

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