Summary Of The Chronicle By Jean De Venette

In the year 1348 a great pestilences hit Europe, and the cause of it, as well as the death toll that it would bring was more then anyone could have imagined. Jean de Venette was one of the writers that lived through this pestilence, and document the affects, and his views on the cause of it. Venette used observation in order to formulate a conclusion on why the pestilence had occurred, as well as the cause of it. His views on the pestilence of 1348 was not held by all, others held different opinions on what caused the pestilence, as well as what spread it. In “The Chronicle”, Venette documents his findings of the pestilence as it occurred in France, and other places around Europe in order to inform others of the cause, and the reason behind …show more content…
Venette blamed the pestilence on vapor that were caused by the alignment of the planets, but he also believed that god was the one who sent the plague do to the sins of humanity (Jean de Venette, The Chronicle). The reason behind the “The Chronicle” by Jean de Venette was to inform the people of France of the devastating affect that the pestilence of the year 1348 brought, so that if it occurred again there would be documents describing the symptoms, as well as to the cause of the pestilence. Venette’s also documented the pestilence in order to propagate his agenda that the sins of humanity were the cause of god’s wrath, and do to god’s anger, because of the sins of people the pestilence was brought down to humanity in order for humanity to correct their sinful …show more content…
Chillon believed that the pestilence of 1348 was cause by those of the Jewish faith poisoning the water (Castellan of Chillon, The Confession). The only similarity between Venette, and Chillon writing’s are that both author blamed the “others” as being the caused of the pestilence. Chillon blamed the Jews, while Venette put the blame infidels who sinned, and angered god. Another similarity between the two was that both men were believers in the Christian god, as well as that both gathered information for their writing through observation of what was occurring in the year 1348 when the pestilence started to spread around Europe. When it comes to the reliability of the source neither author can be seen as being credible, and this is do to the bias that the reader will have, which is do to the information that is known in todays society, but if one had to be picked out of the two, “The Confession” By Castellan of Chillon would seem to be the more creditable source. The reason being is that Chillon writing is based on information that if noting was known of the pestilence many would believe it to be correct, and this is do with the facts that the Jewish people who were “put to the question” confessed to poisoning the water supply, which was the reason that Chillon believed was