Cause And Effects Of The Black Death

(Source 4) Matteo Villani, an Italian historian at the time, had recorded some of his observations on the impact of the Black Death. Matteo’s work shows that the Black Death had major effect on the shares of the kingdom, such as, ‘for most [luxury] commodities were more costly, by twice or more, than before the plague. And the price of labour, and the work of all trades and crafts, rose in disorderly fashion beyond the double.’ As quoted from the source, which meant that peasants were richer, the goods costed more and the king was poorer, which upset the dictatorship. This meant that peasants had more power in society. (Source 5) Henry Knighten, an Augustinian canon at the abbey of St Mary of the Meadows, Leicester, England, and an ecclesiastical historian, recorded some observation for the book he was writing about the history of England. During the aftermath of the Black Death, the peasants became aware of their true worth and started to refuse doing the tripled amount of work that was needed to survive which ended up inspiring change in medieval Europe. To finish this paragraph, The Black Death caused major impact on medieval Europe, which is evident because of the fact that few of peasant Europe had thought they were too valuable to do two times as much

In October 1347, twelve Genoese trading ships sailed to the port of Messina having with them a certain, unexpected disease known as The Black Death. Many sailors were already dead, some alive but close to death. Beginning with what they had from the plague were huge boils that oozed blood and pus. Onto the future, The Black Death spread all through Europe and killed more than 20 million people. Rumors had been spread which everyone called "A great Perstilence .

The Black Death was one of the most devastating worldwide diseases in human history. The disease had came from central Asia and was brought to China by traders and Mongols from 1334-1347. Mongol protection of the trade may have also caused the disease to spread along the “Silk Road” to Crimea. During a Mongol attack against Caffa in 1347, the Mongolian army population began to drop. The Mongols had catapulted the dead bodies into the city where the fleas on the corpses were now spreading into Caffa.

The population losses among the previously overpopulated peasant class, who at this time were underemployed due to this overpopulation, were able to haggle for higher wages and better terms when it came to working, renting, and owning land. At the same time, the sudden loss in population meant the nobles could not demand high prices for product which weakened their power of wealth. This coupled with the higher earning wages of the peasant class meant they could move up in the social order to become farmers themselves or merchants of equal social standing. This period of social mobility didn’t last long, but it allowed for the end of feudalism as it was known during the Middle Ages. The end of feudalism meant the end of kings and nobles being able to give land in return for anything they could ever need including food and protection from knights. While it was still an important part of social class, land was no longer in the very center controlling every decision. In the years before the Black Death, it was the peasants who gave food and work to the knights. The knights then gave protection to nobles which gave money and the knights’ protection to the kings. In return, the king passed down land throughout the social classes. Although, the lower classes had the opportunity to accumulate land for the services they provided, in the end

During the mid-thirteenth century to the fourteenth century, an outbreak of a disease called the Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, occurred. It was a very deadly disease that killed approximately one-third of the population of both Europe and the Middle East based on the Student Guide Sheet. It was spread by black rats to fleas then to humans. The infected fleas from the rats would land on the humans, causing them to get the disease. It was spread across the world from China to Europe based on Document One. When the disease struck, it questioned followers of both Christianity and Islam. How would their followers deal with this deadly disease? Each religion looked at the disease differently. This paper will inform you of how differently the Christians

The Black Death was known as one on the deadliest disease in human history. It pointed into Europe between 1348 and 1350. Some thought the disease carried was fist carried westwards by Mongols travelling between occupied Yunnan and their capital-Karakorum, in the Gobi Desert. Attacking Kaffa, a port on the Black Sea. In the 14th Century the Italian writer described how the Tatars ‘ordered dead corpses (of their man) to be placed in catapults and lobbed (thrown) into the city in the hope that the intolerable stench would kill everyone

The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347. It was carried by 12 trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after they traveled through the Black Sea. When the ships docked, the people waiting at the docks were met with horror when they saw that most of the sailors were either dead or gravely ill. They were all covered with insane black boils that oozed blood and pus. This is what gave the illness the name “The Black Death.” The Sicilian Authorities ordered that the “Death Ships” were removed from the harbor, but it was too late. Little did they know, the Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in Europe. “Plague Boils” began to appear in the groin and armpit areas. They oozed with pus and blood. These people

The black death is believed to have began in central Asia in the mid-thirteen hundreds, and killed millions. After it spread across Asia it was then carried down the Silk Road reaching Crimea by 1343. Scientists believe that the plague was carried by fleas on rodents, such as rats, being normal passengers traveling on merchant ships across the Mediterranean. The fleas were believed to have bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which is commonly present in the flea population on ground rodents in certain areas such as Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India, and Uganda. Scientists believe that all three outbreaks of the epidemic began in China. The disease was devastating to the economy of Europe and Asia, making it hard for people to find employees, and forcing them to pay higher wages. The plague was supposedly

Before 1347, Europe was very overpopulated. Sanitation was terrible because there was no sewage system and people would just throw their waste out of their windows onto the street below. Religion was also a huge part of everyday life. However, this all changed when the Black Death spread into Europe. The Black Death arrived in Europe

The causes of the Black Death – the flea, the rat, and the bacillus Yersinia pestis– have been labeled the “unholy trinity” (Boeckl). The flea is able to live in environmental conditions of about 74° Fahrenheit and 60% humidity (Ibid). Before the Black Death reached Europe, they were experiencing those same types of weather conditions. The rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis and the human flea, Pulex irritans, are both capable of transmitting plague (Boeckl). Sometimes, an infected flea cannot ingest blood because Yersinia pestis obstructs its digestive tract. The blockage causes a flea to regurgitate into a bitten host rather than ingest the host’s blood, thereby infecting the host with plague (Boeckl). Unable to eat, the famished flea will bite with more frequency, accelerating the spread of plague. A flea can be carrying Yersinia pestis without it blocking the flea’s digestive tract, in which case the flea does not transmit plague when it bites a host. Also, Yersinia pestis can only enter a victim through a bite, as the bacilli cannot pass through intact skin (Gottfried).

“The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350” presents an entirely different kind of trial than the one provided by Einhard and Notker. Where Charlemagne’s struggle was often glorious combat with his fellow man, the battle against the plague had none of the nobility and prestige of conquest, and while Charles strove for power, humanity during the plague fought only for survival. The world was well familiarized with violent ambitions of powerful men, but a disease that ended roughly half of the lives in Europe (Aberth, 269) was a trial in unfamiliar terrain. A chronicler, Agnolo di Tura recounted that “So many have died that everyone believes it is the end of the World” (Aberth, 278). The now clichéd phrase of the “enemy of my enemy

Numerous lives were taken in the 14th century at the hands of the Black Death. This devastating pandemic made a huge dent in the world’s population. Before this Plaque there was an estimated 450 million people, this decreased to 350-375 million shortly after. The Black Death drastically effected the European’s in this century, because the death tolls increased daily in many of their civilizations. The Black Death, otherwise known as the Bubonic Plaque, was spread by rats and fleas brought to England in boats.

The Black Death reached Europe by sea in 1347 when Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea (Infobase Learning - Login. (n.d.)). The people who gathered on the docks to greet the ships were terrified with the surprise that most of the sailors onboard the ships were dead and those who were still alive were seriously ill. They were overcome with fever, delirious from pain and were covered in black boils that busted out blood and pus (Infobase Learning – Login. (n.d.)). Over the next few years, the plague killed

Around the late 1300’s something big came into Europe, something that would drastically change the country for the better. The plague, also known as ‘black death”, killed almost half of the European population. This led to economic depression. Merchants and traders had fewer people to sell goods to, so a lot of money was lost. At least 75 million people on three continents perished due to the painful, highly contagious disease. The Black Death originated in China or Central Asia and was spread to Europe by fleas and rats that resided on ships and along the Silk Road . The Black Death killed millions in China, India, Persia (Iran), the Middle East, the Caucasus, and North Africa. To harm the citizens during a siege in 1346, Mongol armies may have thrown infected corpses over the city wall of Caffa, on the Crimean peninsula of the Black Sea. Italian traders from Genoa were also infected and returned home in 1347, introducing the Black Death into Europe. From Italy, the disease spread to France, Spain, Portugal, England, Germany, Russia, and Scandinavia. Depopulation and shortage of labor hastened changes already inherent in the rural economy; the substitution of wages for labor services was accelerated, and social stratification became less rigid. Psychological morbidity affected the arts; in religion, the lack of educated personnel among the clergy gravely reduced the intellectual vigor of the church. Once the plague came to an end in the 15th century, a new movement in art

One of the most significant events in Western history was what is now known as “The Black Death”; a plague that spread across Europe in the twelfth century, disseminating the population and leading to vast social and political consequences. There were many conditions in Europe at the time that made the populus susceptible to the plague. A large one was the environment. Europe was going through an era of decreasing temperature, which hurt their agrarian system of food production. The lack of food was even more devastating given how large the population had become. Europe couldn’t produce enough food, and was rapidly depleting their natural resources, which added to the environmental problems. All of these issues pushed poor farmers towards