Great Plague of London

the poem. The poem “London” by William Blake is a good example. This poem, consisting of sixteen lines, mainly recounts the observations made by the poet in London. These observations made either through hearing or seeing tells of the human suffering in London and conditions of London. Normally, London is often perceived as a great city as it is the capital city of England (just as how people perceive New York as a great place to live), but the poet inform the readers that London is not what it…

Drumoak, UK. James was the son of an Anglican Priest(Malet). His mother gave him an early education. After his father died in 1650, James was sent to Aberdeen for grammar school, and later went to Marischal College. After finishing college, he went to London, UK where he wrote, “ The Advance of Optics”.period always goes inside of quotation marks Finally, he settled in Padua, Italy. He wrote two more mathematical papers called, “The True Squaring of The Circle and of The Hyperbola”, and “The…

Trade and the Plague What is the Plague?- Anna Taylor The term "plague" is fitting to describe the deadly disease that took millions of lives during the medieval time period in the fourteenth century. The dictionary definition of plague is "a disastrous evil or affliction." (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plague). The plague comes from the organism with the scientific name Yersinia Pestis. If the disease is left untreated, it can progress to become very severe. The plague caused…

The plague of 1348 also known as the “Black Death”, was an epidemic that changed the world. It got its name from the black spots it would give people. The Black Death was the most devastating pandemic in all of human history killing millions, but it wasn't the deadliest of all plagues. What made it so lethal was how easily it was transmitted by fleas and threw airborne droplets of saliva from coughs of the infected(“Social and Economics Effects of the Plague.”). The plague affected manly…

the plague. Therefore, from this moment the disease started to spread throughout England with high speed and fatal consequences. not only were cities over crowded but also the quality of hygiene and sanitation was rather low, which played a major role in allowing the epidemic to spread with great ease. The Black Death reached London on November 1st and 30000 or more of the population of 70000 inhabitants gave up. The disease killed between 30% to 40% in the preceding two years. The pre plague…

The “Father of English Literature” Geoffrey Chaucer, born in London around 1343, was the first poet to be buried in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey and largely influenced literature since he was the first to introduce English in his work while other court poetry was still written in Latin or French. Geoffrey Chaucer was the son of John Chaucer, a London wine merchant, who grew up in an able and wealthy family. He began to write poetry in the 1360s, when England had a peace treaty with…

Throughout the evolution of societies, the way people regard women and their roles in the community has changed. Thomas More’s Utopia and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year focus on the role of women in their respective societies. Even though the novels are written nearly two hundred years apart, both regard women very highly and express their importance to their individual communities. However, over the two centuries that separate the novels, opinions and beliefs were sure to change,…

The Bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium yersinia pestis that is found on the fleas of rats. The disease spread to Europe from the Far East in the 14th century along the trade routes of the silk road. The East was experiencing a great boom in trade and economics under the Mongolian Empire that Genghis Khan had built. The Silk Road saw much more use do to the Mongol conquests and the subsequent Pax Mongolica. This intracontinental trade resulted in the people of Italy seeing their first…

The plague was still present after those years, but in small short bursts and was never as bad as in the beginning. The short term effects of this catastrophe left the population in absolute shock. The death toll was so great that it just left bodies in its path. Jobs were unfilled because of people in the profession dying so quickly. People started to panic from…

Alchin, Linda. "The Black Death & Bubonic Plague during the Elizabethan Era." Bubonic Plague. Siteseen Ltd, June 2015. Web. 14 Apr. 2016. This source gave me an insight on the Black Death specifically during the Elizabethan Era. It also explained what people did to prevent it. Watchmen were used to give food to the sick people in “plague houses”, and they also made sure that no one entered or escaped from the house to prevent the illness from spreading. They were also given the job to transport…