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The Black Death

The Black Death. Late Medieval Period. http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/plague.htm. The Black Death. Begins around 1347 AKA – Bubonic Plague Lasts only 5 years, until 1352 Kills almost 1/3 of Europe’s population – 25 million. http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/plague.htm. The Plague’s Route.

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The Black Death

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  1. The Black Death Late Medieval Period http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/plague.htm

  2. The Black Death • Begins around 1347 • AKA – Bubonic Plague • Lasts only 5 years, until 1352 • Kills almost 1/3 of Europe’s population – 25 million http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/plague.htm

  3. The Plague’s Route http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aapmaps4.htm

  4. http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/hmcl1005/plague/

  5. Here’s the Culprit! http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/images/flea.jpg

  6. Where did it come from? • Started with fleas on rats in Asia • Traveled to Europe by trade • Once the goods were unloaded and the rats got out, the fleas bit humans. • Thus, they contracted the disease.

  7. Symptoms • High fever • Swollen glands • Purplish spots under skin • Sometimes bulged and turned black http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/diagnosis.htm

  8. For all of you doctors  • Bubonic plague is a bacillus carried by parasites on the back of rodents. It was mostly carried on the backs of black rats. • The plague mainly spread through flea bites. However, it could spread from human to human when it became pneumonic plague. • Because of the rapid spread, and many inconsistencies, many scientists believe another disease was also present, possibly anthrax (from eating infected cows).

  9. Continued • The spread is believed to have been stopped by the arrival of larger brown rats. • These rats killed off the black rats and their fur is thicker and not as inviting for fleas.

  10. What to Do With the Dead? • Plague spread so quickly, couldn’t keep up with burials. • Many bodies left in the street, which possibly further contaminated people. http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/eng97_8/remsen/saki_justin/the_plague.htm

  11. Effects • Enormous reduction in population = labor shortage • Trade disrupted • Food shortages and starvation follow • Many societies become lawless. • “In this sore affliction and misery of our city, the authority of the laws, both human and divine, was all dissolved and fell into decay.” Boccaccio • Jews became a scapegoat (Pogrom = anti-Jewish massacres)

  12. Jewish Pogrom in Strasbourg, Germany • “On Saturday…they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery. There were about 2,000 people of them. Many small children were taken out of the fire and baptized against the will of their fathers and mothers.” Jacob von Konigshofen • “The money was indeed the thing that killed the Jews. If they had been poor and if the feudal lords had not been in debt to them, they would not have been burnt…”

  13. What about the manors? • Not enough labor • Serfs realize they can bargain for pay now • Nobles had no other choice but to pay serfs for services now • This is another factor leading to Feudalism breaking down.

  14. And the Church… • People lost faith in Church • Thought that holy people should have been able to stop plague or cure it • Also, priests began to stop seeing the dying for fear they would contract the disease. http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/eng97_8/remsen/saki_justin/the_plague.htm

  15. The Plague Today http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/world98.htm

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