The Plague Of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, devastated the world between 1347 and 1351. Due to the plague being transmitted through fleas, many people were susceptible to the disease that wiped out much of the population. The plague caused much throughout Europe because of the number of lives lost, the number of people affected, and the limited amount of medical research that came from this period in time. The number of lives lost caused devastation in Europe.

The Bubonic Plague or the Black Death has been in the history books since the medieval times. This deadly disease has claimed nearly 1.5 million lives in Europe (Gottfried). The Black Death hit Europe in October of 1347 and quickly spread through most of Europe by the end of 1349 and continued on to Scandinavia and Russia in the 1350s. Not only did the plague effect the European population by killing one-third to two-thirds (Gottfried), it also hurt the social and economic structures of every European society.

The bubonic plague, or Black Death, was a deadly disease that swept throughout the Afro-Eurasion landmass. Carried by black rats, the bacillus, Yersinia pestis, wiped out two-thirds of the population in some areas of China, Muslim towns, Southwest Asia, parts of the European population, as well as parts of North Africa. The ramifications of the plague varied from place to place, but it commonly effected areas of Afro- Eurasia socially, politically and economically negatively.

The Black Death was the great epidemic of a disease thought to be bubonic plague, which killed a large proportion of the population of Europe in the mid 14th century (the Medieval period). It originated in central Asia and China and spread rapidly through Europe, carried by the fleas of black rats, reaching England in 1348 and killing between one third and one half of the population in a matter of months. No amount of medical knowledge could help England when the plague struck. It was also to have a major impact on England’s social structure, which lead to the Peasants Revolt of 1381. Some main consequences of the Black Death are the economical and social side of things and the political effects of this event.

The Black Death was the result of bubonic plague in the 14th century, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and carried by fleas. It was named the ‘Black Death’ as people who were infected had black welts and many died. Even if they were alive, they were gravely ill.

The Black Death, which was not recognized as the Bubonic Plague until the mid-1300s, is a disease that killed a large majority of Europe’s population. “Plague that first struck Europe in 1347 and killed perhaps one-third of the population”

During medieval England a great pestilence, known as the “Black Plague” struck Europe in 1347 destroying nearly one thirds of the country’s population in less than a decade. The plague was believed to have arrived from Asia and spread vastly through the areas by the Mongol army men during trade. It also struck areas such as: China, India, Persia, Syria and Egypt

In Renaissance times Europe was beginning to flourish culturally and economically; until a deadly disease called the black death swept away millions of Europeś people. The black death started as early as 1340 in China and eventually made its way to Europe by the 1350s. Also known as the plague, the black death originated in fleas which then lived in black rats. A person could take on the plague in which of two ways, bubonic or pneumonic plague. The black death was an extremely violent disease that killed off more than one-fourth of populations within the 1340s-18th century, and resulted in a change in medical practices, literature, and religious views.

The Bubonic Plague was a horrific disease that was killing thousands of people, and nobody knew how to cure it. At the time, doctors resorted to treatments that people today would call absurd. None of these treatments at the time worked and was the result of scientists overreacting. These scientists were scared, and so were the communities. The affected communities just wanted to get rid of the people with the disease and keep the healthy ones quarantined in order to try and rid their homes of the sickness. The Bubonic Plague was first noticed in the United States in 1900, however it is not found as often now as it was then. In 1900, the environment was remarkably different and doctors and scientists lacked the knowledge needed in order

The Black Plague also known as the Bubonic Plague is a deadly pandemic that began in China nobody knows how that went to Europe in 1347. People blamed the jews and lepers but it spread due to Mongolian Biological warfare, fleas on rats the yersinia pestis, bacteria, and spread rapidly at 5 kilometers a day killing ⅔ of the European population in only 5 years. Some of the symptoms were black tongue, swollen lymphnodes, rose colored open skin sores all over the body, and it caused a really bad smell, if somebody in your family had it was only a matter of time until you got it. Back then and still today the Black Plague is incurable and to help with how bad it smelled with the disease and all the dead bodies people wore masks with herbs or just

When twelve Genoese ships arrived in 1347 Messina, Sicily, barely any of the crew were alive. They were sickly looking and covered in black boils. Quickly, the ships were sent off but it was too late. Within a few days, the disease started affecting the town, making the Black Death’s first of many appearances in Europe (Martin 12). The Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was a disease that devastated the Western World in late 1347. The disease originated in eastern Asia but was spread by rat-infested ships traveling along trade routes. The people of Europe had never been exposed to the disease before therefore lacked the necessary antibodies to fight it off. The disease appeared in waves until the eighteenth century. It was

The research topic I have chosen to do my paper on is the “Black Death” which is also referred to as “the bubonic plague”. Medieval people also referred to it as “the blue sickness”, “pestilence” and “the Great Mortality”. The Black Death was an epidemic from 1343 – 1353, it came to Europe via trading ships after a long journey through the Black Sea. The plague originated in Eastern Asia and worked its way via the trade ships into Western, Europe. The vessels were crammed full of rats and fleas that they believe were carrying this disease.

Following many years of agricultural revolution and an increased population, Europe looked to be prospering. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Overpopulation, economic depression, famine, and poor health played a role in the reason Europe experienced the worst epidemic of their time. The Bubonic Plague, or the Black Death as it is also known, first emerged in 1346 in Constantinople. The Bubonic Plague was so devastating to European society because the European population decreased drastically, the plague spread very quickly, and there was little medical knowledge on how to treat the disease.

This essay will discuss and evaluate, with the use of historiography, facts and figures, the impacts the “Black Death” had on Europe, especially focusing on Britain. The Black Death killed almost 200 million innocent men, woman and children worldwide and peaked in Europe around mid-14th century. In London alone it was estimated that two thirds of the population was completely obliterated, while around one third of the whole of Europe were also diminished, during this time period. One historian, Sean Martin, explained how quickly the plague spread from one person to another person, and how deadly the plague actually turned out to be. “While at sea, plague began to spread among the crew by the time the ship ran aground near their destination, no one was left alive.” (Martin, 2001). The plague wiped out large scales of people and places at a time and showed no sign of stopping. It was thought to have originated In the Arid Plains of Central Africa in fields and since then spread rapidly across the globe. It was mainly spread through three different ways. First of all, Pneumonic Plague, which was the spread of the disease through effects of common colds, such as sneezing and coughing. Also, Bubonic Plague which was the spread through infected rats that arrived on ports and moved swiftly across countries. In addition to these two, there was a third method called Septicaemic Plague, which is spread through contact of open sores. There was also a less devastating and effective

(Based on work of Chris Butler) Once, an infected rat died from the plague bacillus, the hungry rat flea’s move into human. (Based on work of Ole J. Benedictow) After, the plague hit the Genoese colony in Caffa, Constantinople and southern Europe in 1347, the disease slowly turned to Germany, England and Scandinavia. (Based work on Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein and Bonnie G. Smith) The Black Death started from lower Volga to Italy then Egypt in 1347. (Based on work of Kenrad E. Nelson, Carolyn F. Williams) The mortality of infectious disease in Renaissance profoundly affected economy, civilization and religion. Economically, the popular uprising made problems for nobles and clergy, but a higher standard of living for those who survived from plague, lead to more wealth distribution and the recovery of the economy. The Bubonic or Black Death waves affected even in development of civilization by practicing to create a strong sanitary conditions and medicine. Religiously, most of the people in Renaissance period believed the Black Death was a divine retribution; therefore, this gave more vitality to flagellants and Jews were also blamed for the cause of plague. Thus,