The Black Death

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The Black Death
                                                  
                                                  
              

• Also called the bubonic plague or simply The
  Plague
• Killed 25 million people between 1347 1352 AD

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Victims had headaches, nausea, aching joints,
fever of 101-105 degrees, vomiting, and a general
feeling of illness. Symptoms took from 1-7 days
to appear. The main symptom was enlarged and
inflamed lymph nodes (around arm pits, neck and
groin).
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How it was Transmitted                        
                                                  
    
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The plague spread through trade and armies.

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Effect on European Civilization
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Effects of the Plague

• Increased Anti-Semitism
• Economy suffered
• Serfs left their fields
• Price of labor and Prices for goods rose
• Social Unrest
• Upheaval in the Church
• Church had no answers to why the plague happened
• Multiple popes
• John Wycliffeattacked churchs corruption

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Ring around the Rosy

• Ring around the rosy rosary beads give you Gods
  help
• A pocket full of posies used to stop the odor of
  rotting bodies which was at one point thought to
  cause the plague. It was also used widely by
  doctors to protect them from infected patients.
• Ashes, ashes the church burned the dead when
  burying them because to laborious.
• We all fall down we all die!

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The Effect on Music and Art
"The Dance of Death"by Hans Holbein the Younger
     Before the Black Death, music was happy
and frequently heard. During the Black Death
music was played very grimly or never played at
all. The only exceptions were people who decided
that since they were going to die anyway, they
might as well spend the rest of their life in
happiness. The somber change in art and music
demonstrated the grim reality of the world around
them.
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Who did the plague attack?
Kings, Nobles, Knights, SerfsEVERYONE!
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Victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner
with their ancestors in paradise