Plague

In the town of Chichester, a physician that was blessed with dubious luck made his fortune on the remnants of the plague. To Gifre, the Bubonic Plague was not damnation, but blessing. The plague had claimed the lives of the majority of the villagers and townsmen of Chichester. Peculiarly, Gifre seemed to be protected from the pest and was able to maintain his health. His abnormal luck of immunity popularized him as the best physician in Chichester. From distant towns people would come to visit…

very low amounts of crops stopped growing, people began to worry. The first historical record of bubonic plague is in Central Asia in 1338/39. It reached China and India by 1346. It infected the Black Sea port of Kaffa by 1347.Says web.cn.edu. This disease lasted supposedly until 1351 but more cases were still reported after that. Today, it 's best known as the Black Death or the bubonic plague. Medieval people called it the blue sickness and the Great Mortality. The Black Death arrived in…

Cures for bubonic plague (which never worked) 1. Kill the Jewish The governors of different cities would gather all Jew’s and burned them alive. Now you’re probably thinking that how did they know if they killed a few people that weren’t Jews. Well that never happened because the Jews had to wear the colour yellow. The Jews admitted they poisoned the well and the rivers that leads to their cities, however the Jews were tortured into admitting they…

The Plague and The Plague: Are There Similarities In Between? Is the historical Black Death similar, in any way, to Albert Camus’s The Plague? Like the hurricane that brings fear and panic along with its powerful winds that sweep out everything with it, the same happened both in the real life and the fictional life. And despite obvious differences between history and Camus’ fictional representation, the novel The Plague manages to accurately depict society’s reaction to the devastation of The…

two religions coped with the pestilence in very different ways but sought answer to the same question: why did God bring forth this cruel disease? Christians believed that the plague was created through Gods just wrath as a punishment to mortals for their sins. Contrary to christians beliefs, Muslims believed that the plague was a blessing that guaranteed a place in heaven for those who suffered through it and was an unfathomable expression of Gods will.5 These two almost completely different…

Dengue Fever have cause scare and panic in 1st world countries and killed thousands in many 3rd world countries. The Bubonic Plague and viruses and other diseases nowadays have many similarities and many differences. The Bubonic Plague and Dengue Fever similarly ravage and cause many deaths within the areas of contact. Also the spread of virus like Ebola and the Black Plague spread with great speed across a continent in a matter of days to weeks. However, they differ in that modern medicine is…

Most know it as the plague that wiped out about 50% of England’s population, but this epidemic actually originated in China circa the 1330s. China was big in the trading industry, its ships infected with the disease stricken fleas on black rats carried this disease down the Mediterranean, over to Europe in the 1340’s. This is when the Bubonic Plague became a big part of history as the “Black Death”. After 5 long years and 1/3 of Europe’s people deceased, the worst of it was over. Although, the…

talks about how the black death got started, who started the plague, when it started spreading, and why the plague started. So stayed tuned to hear a brief history lesson about a plague like no ordinary and how it almost died off cities and the human population decreased dramatically. Diane Zahler is the author of ¨The Black Death¨ and studies about medieval history during her college studies and was fascinated about the bubonic plague. Some of the book she has published are for grades…

The Renaissance was a time period of rebirth, new discoveries, and developments. The sicknesses and the Bubonic Plague, or most commonly known as, “plague,” or, “ Black Death,” impacted Europe and other locations across the globe during the Renaissance years in a dreadful manner. The Bubonic Plague affected people during the Renaissance in an unwelcoming way. Even though the illness took many lives, it had a positive influence on society today because it changed medical treatments and advanced…

During the time when the Black Plague struck there were two main religions in the world, Christianity and Islam. An interesting topic that one might discover of this time is, how did these two religions react to the plague. Could it be possible that they acted as everyone else did at that time, or did they hold strong to their beliefs? One might believe that because Christianity and Islam are two different religions, that they would react in very different ways but in reality that acted quite…