Essay On Response To The Black Death

The responses of the Muslims and the Christians were very different in how they dealt with The Black Death. Mainly how the Muslims responded was they thought that they now needed to be saved or cleansed, and the Christians were worried about the pope because they had thought for all their life that he could fix these type of things when in reality he couldn’t. So both society groups or religions were panicking just in different ways. The Black Death had two other names the Great Pestilence, and the Great Plague. The Black Death was actually a combination of three plagues from three different bacterial strains:bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. The most common out of the three was bubonic, and the least common plague was pneumonic, but all of these plagues no matter what form resulted in an agonizing and painful death. The very first documented plague lasted from five hundred forty-one to five hundred forty-four CE.
Historians today still debate as to what caused this virus, most believe the plague was caused by bacterial strains that live in the stomach of certain fleas which live on or in the fur of rodents. Europe believed the …show more content…
Gabriel de Mussis who lived in Piacenza a town in Italy, believed that this was just a reward of our sins which basically means punishment for their sins. The people in the Near East also believed that abundance of shooting stars, warm ovens, evil jinn which are fairies or demons, and sin; alcohol and prostitution were causes of the Black Death. Some even thought that the jews were the cause of the Black Death, so they burned them. One thing that is different between Europe and the Near East was why they thought their god was doing this to them. Gabriele de Mussis said that the plague was just a reward for their sin which basically means punishment for their sin, and Muhammad al-Manbiji said that praying for god to lift the plague was abhorrent and that the plague was blessing from their