The Importance Of The Black Death

One of the well known massive disasters that happened in the history of European is the “Black Death.” This fatal plague led to huge loss of between 17 million and 28 million lives in whole Europe. It took place from 1345 to 1353 and the death arrived by sea during the time when twelve Genoese trading ships had actually docked at the Sicilian port after travelling through the Black Sea. A horrifying surprise befell the individuals who were gathering on the docks when they realized that a great number

The Black Death was the second plague pandemic. According to a book by Liza Picard entitled, Elizabeth’s London Everyday Life In Elizabethan London, it claims that about a fourth of London’s population had died due to the plague (91). In total, one-third of Europe’s population died from the plague (Zuraw). The Black Death caused many deaths as well as sparking religious speculations. The Black Plague affected the economic life along with the theaters during Shakespeare’s time. The bubonic plague

relieved of any complacent assumptions that anyone will survive this hideous calamity, and have come whole of humanity, and that God has deserted mankind, then you will start to realise how destructive the plague was. The Great Plague-the term “Black Death’’ is not invented until the nineteenth century-is one of the most horrific events in human history, comparable only with those traumas which people have inflicted on one another in modern times. Every prayer fades into a mere whisper of horror.

The Black Death was a pivotal event in Asian and European history during the 14th and 15th century for multiple reasons. One reason was because of how the feudal government system had weakened due to the plague, and collapsed soon after. Another reason is because of the influence it had on art, since a lot of the art and writing made during and after those times usually dealt with death and other grotesque themes and ideas. These two reasons are only a few of the many changes that happened, politically

found regarding the history of the Black Death in Europe. It incorporates the beginning of the plague, the way that it spread, and the toll it took on Europe’s population. It answers questions concerning the context of my topic, the importance of subject at hand, as well as the affects it had on the society during and after this tragedy. Concluding this paper answers the final question of why people should know about this subject in the first place. The Black Death was single handedly one of the worst

The black death came from China through communication of trade in The High Middle ages. Due to Western Europe's lack of education and hygiene, the black death spread quickly and was almost always fatal. For many, the Black Death affected them directly, but even survivors and future generation’s lives were changed forever. During the high middle ages in western Europe the black death changed the church’s power & relationship with its followers, the importance of the manor system and people’s expression

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“The violence of the Black Death was such that the sick communicated it to the healthy who came near them, just as a fire catches anything dry or oily near it” (Boccaccio). In the Golden Age of bacteria, there was a large increase in epidemic diseases caused by increases in Europe’s population density. The Black Death, or bubonic plague, has been labeled with a negative connotation since its arrival, but by withstanding the natural selector, Europe striked great progress in post-epidemic times and

David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) “The work of a mature, indeed brilliant, scholar…” are a few words from Thomas Kuehn, author of Law, Family, and Women, describing David Herlihy’s profession on his work of the Black Death. David Herlihy was a remarkable medievalist who questioned the inference of the Black Death, the Yersinia Pestis or the bubonic plague. Herlihy has written several other books about his work, one well-known

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