The Black Death was a bubonic plague that infected Europe during the years of 1347 - 1350. The plague was introduced to Europe by a foreign source, Europe suffered from severe economic and social losses. Throughout history, documentation of the Black Death was adjusted to different viewpoints of historians, causing primary and secondary sources to occasionally depict the event differently. The Black Death was an important event in European History as it remodelled Europe, the European society, and
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very strict as it was practiced all across Europe. Marriages were arranged by the parents during this time in order to increase the status and wealth of each family. Courtly Love had very little to do with love in the middle Ages. Courtly love is a medieval literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Courtly love was practiced in the courts but in tales it was shown through knights. But, where there were courtly love you, there were also sexual desires. In the middle ages, women
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During the 1300s, a plague referred to The Black Death wiped out one third of Europe population. The Black Death was one of the largest wipe-outs in the world. After historians traced this plague, they discovered it began in the far East stucking China, Persia, Syria and Egypt first in 1340. Soon after, this deadly plague traveled its' way northwest when it arrived by sea in the mid 1300s. The 12 trading ships delivered the Black Death onto the dock at the Sicilian port of Messina which was soon
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There were many different theories about the origin of the Black Death during the outbreak during the Dark Ages. Some believed the disease was caused by miasma, bad water, bad smells, by sight, by poison, by Jews or simply as vengeance sent from God. Some of these combined Jews poisoning wells, God and miasma. None of them came close to understanding that the disease was bacterial in nature and was being spread by fleas infecting rats. Perhaps the closest to the truth was Girolamo Fracastoro who
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The Medieval social structure consisted of four categories of people who performed their own duties. The issues that concerned the security of people during the Middle Ages were, according to the document 1, the responsibility of the knights who were the people of the middle status. While the serfs had to supply the knights with provision working on their lands, they gained the guarantee of security. At the same time, the knights provided military service to the nobles, and the nobles in turn provided
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Around the year of 1348, the most devastating plague in human history swept across Europe and would come to be known as “The Black Death”. Although this is the common nickname for the pandemic it is more scientifically known and debated to be either the bubonic plague or pneumonic plague based on how rapidly it spread. Originally it was thought to be caused by rats infected by fleas carrying the disease, however debates still exist that lean toward the crowded urban areas, coughing and sneezing in
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There have been three plagues in history. The Justinianic (541–750) witch afflicted the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantine Empire) One high estimate is that the Plague of Justinian killed as many as 25 million people across the known world. The Black Death of the 1340s was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53. The term "Black Death" is recent. During the plague, it was
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Hundreds of dead bodies that were infected with the ferocious Black Death were shoved in a hole and buried with dirt. Around 1348, the bubonic plague (also known as Black Death) spread around Europe. This plague killed many people just because at the time people didn’t have the cure for the plague’s vicious symptoms. Also, the plague spread really quickly. The sorrowful times of the plague just keep on getting worse and worse, day by day, people dropping like flies. People wept for the loss of their
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In 1347 the Black Death was brought into Europe by the Asians because of the trade routes. The Europeans at the times had no idea that the Black Plague would’ve affected their lives how it did. The Black plague was said to kill probably one out of every three people. When one person had contracted the disease it would affect the entire family. Parent were abandoning children, brothers were leaving their brothers because of how infectious and deadly the disease was. The disease would keep close
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and it showed no mercy. The Black Death changed the course of history forever by influencing the artistic community and opening up minds to new medical innovations. The Black death itself killed about 25 million people, which was about ⅓ of medieval. This devastating plague was recognized by many symptoms. The symptoms were fevers, chills. headaches, tiredness, discomfort, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes (also known as Buboes). This plague, although it killed so many was caused by a small
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