Black Death

The plague commonly known as The Black Death first arrived in Europe around October 1347 at the port of Genoa. The Black Death did not catch on with Europeans until around nineteenth century. It took the plague about three years to achieve the status of pandemic. By the end of the plague about a third of the worlds population was erased as a direct result. The Black Death reshaped the world in numerous ways such as trade between nations, economy, and religion. Christians throughout Europe were…

The Black Death was one of the most devastating diseases in human history. The disease spread fast and covered the territory from China to England and the western part of Europe, covering almost all of Europe within several years. The disease was mysterious to Medieval people, the medicine back in the day was underdeveloped to fight such a disease as the Black Death, which was thought to be a plague. The development and spread of the disease was fast and started the depopulation of Europe. At…

The Black Death – as it is commonly called – especially ravaged Europe, which was halfway through a century already marked by war, famine and scandal in the church, which had moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon, France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching corpses pile up in the…

The Black Death Imagine living your life in a time that is filled with nothing but fear and chaos. That which you fear the most cannot be held or seen, but when it strikes it will cause you to suffer a cruel and agonizing death. During the mid-1300’s, the people of Europe were stricken with a deadly plague, later known as “The Black Death.” Many populations were completely wiped out as the Black Death swept through towns and villages leaving only death and devastation in its wake. The Black…

With an estimated thirty-eight million men, women, and children left dead, the Black Death that swept through Europe in the mid-fourteenth century is by and large the most devastating epidemic of medieval European history. Long thought to have been brought to the European continent by flea-carrying Asian traders, the plague left a crippling trail of death and destruction in its wake. Some scholars now challenge the source of the plague, saying it could not have come from fleas or rats but rather…

disastrous events. The great plague also known as The Black Death is said to have originated in Asia and spread throughout Europe with the facilitated long-distance trade that the Mongols brought under a single rule. This disease was carried by flea-infested rats which would infect their victims causing them death in a short amount of time. Towards the mid-fourteenth century it became the most devastating natural disaster in European history. The Black Death in Europe caused social, political…

Plague doctor When the Black Death began to spread across Europe and parts of Asia, the search for cures and treatments became desperate. After multiple bouts of plague across decades by 1656, plague doctors became notorious for their foreboding wardrobe. They often wore long leather suits, glasses, a pointed mask that looked like that of a birds’ head or beak, and finally, a long pointed cane or stick was held to keep the infected at “safe” a distance (Link 1). These physicians were…

Historians of the Black Death have long held that doctors and medical experts during the fourteenth century understood the pestilence through one of two opposing theories; aerist or contagionist. According to historiography, aerist theories (the spread of the plague through the corruption of the air) were the focus of university trained physicians who sought to explain the pestilence in terms of the ancient texts they were versed in, whilst contagionist theories (that the plague was spread…

The Black Death was a disease that hit Europe in 1346-1353. The disease is considered to be the most devastating plague in Europe of all time, with at least 75 million people deceased. Not only did the Black Death kill millions of people, but it also had many effects on Western Europe. The three most important effects the Black Death had on Western Europe were the Jews being blamed for the plague outbreak, relationships between the people and the Church changing, and the many advancements that…

with mounds of dirt covering the dead. These were the results of a devastating plague that swept through Europe during the 14th century, taking the lives of adults, children and animals. This plague, known as the Black Death, took the lives of 25 million people. However, out of the death and decay, came new ideas that served the British society for the better. Before the plague, the British social structure consisted of peasants, royalty, and knights and lords. The peasants had no possible…