Plague of Justinian

“The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely… and as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.” These words, spoken by Nathan Wolfe, director of Global Viral, are naturally applicable to one of Richard Preston’s most famous novels. In The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, the author uses a variety of literary devices to create an atmosphere that is horrifyingly…

but what people do not know is that more good actually came out of it. Many people think about the plague was an epidemic that swept most of Europe. As casualties counts were high so were ideas. The plague introduced brand new medical, technology, and geographical advancements to the mid 1300s and they also bettered the future. Even with these horrific things happening good came out of the plague as well. Since many people were dying so doctors were trying really hard to understand the disease.…

Hello i am leslie i am 12 years old. One day at europe I was walking and i past by a man he looked faul sick. He had bumps he was bleeding a lot and shaking even sweating. I told him if he was ok he sad no that he needed help i said go home. I walked him home i went in i saw a lot of rats, “ew” i said “what” the man said. There's a lot of rats i told him i had to go. When i left i told myself that that guy is going to die soon. I knew he was because the looked that he was very very very sick. I…

A severely deadly disease commonly known as, “The Black Death”, was the plague that was caused by “bad bacteria”, from fleas transmitted to people that caused the death of the young, old, and sick wiping out a significant amount of people ranging from 25% to 50% of the population just in Western Europe alone. Other places affected were Eastern Europe and other remote places, this all had occured in 1347- 1351. Since the black death was very common it commonly also affected the people surrounding…

The plague epidemics of the 6th, 14th, and 17th century are commonly known as Justinian’s Plague, the Black Death, and the Plague of 1665, respectively. Yersinia pestis was the major source of the plague in all three epidemics. Modern DNA analysis studies showed that Y. pestis has a strong correlation with victims of the Black Death in the 14th century. However, although these modern studies show biologically that Yersinia pestis was the cause of the Black Death, many scientists are skeptical…

The book The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350 is a strong compilation of texts of the plague times. The documents John Aberth collected pieced together a narrative with several views. The section ‘The Artistic Response’ was the most interesting to me, and I was excited to find one of the prompts based on it. I believe that the most important plague-centric themes in the art of medieval society were the Dance of Death and worms. In my essay below, I hope to explain how these themes…

This article is within direct correlation of our recent studies in the specific area of the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) which caused 50 Million or 60% of Europe’s entire population to disintegrate into infectious bodies. In our reading in class we learned of what is widely accept by accredited historians, who believe the Bubonic Plague began as a minor bacteria within rats, which then migrated via sea trading boats which allows rats to breed at an expeditious rate which was uncontrollable.…

The bubonic plague was an important historical event that changed the history was viewed in killing. From enforcing laws on workers and unsanitary conditions to Hollywood producing series of films to reenactment, both were pointed to one thing; the bubonic plague was a series killer. The movie “Black Death” shows dramatic scenery that vividly displays an image into the viewer’s eye on what the life was like during the mid-thirteen hundreds. The movie, researches, and accounts on this event shows…

Black Plague, the Bubonic Plague, The Plague, and Pestilence. The Black Plague occurred during 1348-1349 in Western Europe, but if you include Eastern Europe as well and it’s other more remote places then the years would be 1347-1351. According the article named The Black Death, Historians believe that 25%-50% of the entire population of Western Europe died in these two years. From the same article, other pestilences went through Europe and the Middle Ages, but what made the Black Plague so…

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…