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The Black Death: The Culprits, Symptoms, and Impact

Learn about the culprits behind the Black Death, the symptoms of the disease, and its devastating impact on medieval society, including the political, economic, and social effects. Discover how this deadly epidemic affected millions of people and shaped the course of history.

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The Black Death: The Culprits, Symptoms, and Impact

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  1. The Black Death 1347 - 1351 Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  2. The Culprits

  3. The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemia Form:almost 100% mortality rate.

  4. From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411

  5. 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.

  6. Medieval Art & the Plague

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

  8. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

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

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

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

  12. Attempts to Stop the Plague Pogroms against the Jews “Golden Circle” obligatory badge “Jew” hat

  13. Death Triumphant !:A Major Artistic Theme

  14. 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.”

  15. 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.”

  16. 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 he sneezed……….!

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

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

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