Black Death
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Bubonic plague
- buboes occur in groin, armpit, or neck- high fever/disorientation- plague bacteria spreads and victim dies
- Pnneumonic plague
- infection of the lungs- more deadly because harder to fight
- Septicemic
- the plague bacilli are circulating in the bloodstream in large numbers
- Buboes
- swellings that occur most frequently on armpits, neck, or groin
- Flagellants
- formed a circle and fell to the ground in the positions which showed their sins, the master whipped each flagellant who then arose
- Dance of death
- represented in paintings- strong sense of sadness and mortality descended on the people during the Black Death
- Heavenly Letter
- placed on the alter of a cathedral in Jerusalem- it said that God would destroy the world if the Christians did not take a flagelllant pilgrimage of 33.5 days
- 14th century christian beliefs on what caused the plague
- changed in air quality and water- human production of the plague, position of planets and influence of stars, vapors and fumes, posessions of the sick, jews infected, gods anger for their wicked deeds
- 14th centuury christian reactions to the plague
- charged jews, looked for treatment, recorded informatinon, fake doctors
- muslim beliefs of the plague
- a way to go to heaven, corruption in air by terrestrial and heavenly causes, shooting stars and meteorites, not contagious or punishment for sins
- Muslim reactions to the plague
- did not flee, had civil and social responsibilities, populations vanished, accepted asn atural disaster, seeked fresh air and ate fresh fruit
- statute of labourers
- no peasent could ask for more than they got paid before
- social and economic consequences
- prices were very high
- d
- d