The Black Death

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The Black Death
1347 - 1351
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The Culprits
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The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the
bacteria.
Bacteria multiply in fleas gut.
Human is infected!
Fleas gut cloggedwith bacteria.
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into
human wound.
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The Famine of 1315-1317

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

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The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Formalmost 100 mortality rate.
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From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411
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Lancing a Buboe
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Medieval Art the Plague
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Medieval Art the Plague
Bring out your dead!
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Medieval Art the Plague
An obsession with death.
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Boccaccio in The Decameron
The victims ate lunch with their friends and
dinner with their ancestors.
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The Danse Macabre
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Attempts to Stop the Plague
Leeching
A Doctors Robe
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Attempts to Stop the Plague
FlagellantiSelf-inflicted penance for our
sins!
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Attempts to Stop the Plague
Pogroms against the Jews
Golden Circle obligatory badge
Jew hat
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Death Triumphant !A Major Artistic Theme
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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.
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A Little Macabre Ditty (2)
I had to laugh, the merchant said,The doctors
purged, and dosed, and bledAnd proved through
solemn disputationThe 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.
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A Little Macabre Ditty (3)
I came away, the merchant said,You cant do
business with the dead.So Ive come here to ply
my trade.Youll find this to be a fine brocade
And then he sneezed.!
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The Mortality Rate
35 - 70
25,000,000 dead !!!
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What were thepolitical,economic,and social
effectsof the Black Death??
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1347 Plague Reaches Constantinople!
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Answer the following questions on your sheet of
paper.

• Describe how the Plague spread using the map. Use
  directions (N,S,E,W) in your response.
• Which areas were harder hit? Why do you think
  these areas had more cases of the Plague?

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Analyze and explain the connection between
Mercantilism and the Crusades. What impact did
these have on the spread of the Bubonic Plague?

• The Crusades

• Mercantilism

• A series of brutal religious wars fought by
  Europeans to win control of Palestine the
  birthplace of Christianity from Muslim rule.

• AKA Commercialism
• the act of trading with other countries to build
  wealth

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Exchange of goods and ideas (AKA cultural
diffusion)

• Silk
• Cotton
• Spices
• Glass
• Paper
• Cucumbers
• Grapes
• Religious beliefs

• Gems
• Textiles
• Alphabet
• Sugar
• Rice
• Perfumes
• Gunpowder
• Porcelain

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