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    Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

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    The document discusses the Black Death plague that hit Europe in the mid-14th century. It provides details on how the plague originated in Central Asia and was brought to Europe via trade routes. It describes the gruesome symptoms of the plague like bulbous buboes and high fever. It estimates that the plague killed around 25 million people, which was around 35-70% of the European population, and discusses some of the social, economic and political impacts of the massive loss of life.

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    Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

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    The document discusses the Black Death plague that hit Europe in the mid-14th century. It provides details on how the plague originated in Central Asia and was brought to Europe via trade routes. It describes the gruesome symptoms of the plague like bulbous buboes and high fever. It estimates that the plague killed around 25 million people, which was around 35-70% of the European population, and discusses some of the social, economic and political impacts of the massive loss of life.

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    The document discusses the Black Death plague that hit Europe in the mid-14th century. It provides details on how the plague originated in Central Asia and was brought to Europe via trade routes. It describes the gruesome symptoms of the plague like bulbous buboes and high fever. It estimates that the plague killed around 25 million people, which was around 35-70% of the European population, and discusses some of the social, economic and political impacts of the massive loss of life.

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    Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

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    The document discusses the Black Death plague that hit Europe in the mid-14th century. It provides details on how the plague originated in Central Asia and was brought to Europe via trade routes. It describes the gruesome symptoms of the plague like bulbous buboes and high fever. It estimates that the plague killed around 25 million people, which was around 35-70% of the European population, and discusses some of the social, economic and political impacts of the massive loss of life.

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    Ms. Susan M.

    Pojer
    Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
    The Culprits
    The Famine of 1315-
     1317
    By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all
    the land they could cultivate.
     A population crisis developed.
     Climate changes in Europe produced three
    years of crop failures between 1315-17
    because of excessive rain.
     As many as 15% of the peasants in some
    English villages died.
     One consequence of
    starvation & poverty
    was susceptibility to
    disease.
    1347: Plague Reaches
    Constantinople!
    The Symptoms

    Bulbous

    Septicemic Form:
    almost 100%
    mortality rate.
    From the Toggenburg Bible,
    1411
    Lancing a Buboe
    The Disease Cycle
    Flea drinks rat blood Bacteria
    that carries the multiply in
    bacteria. flea’s gut.

    Human is infected!

    Flea bites human and


    Flea’s gut clogged
    regurgitates blood
    with bacteria.
    into human wound.
    Medieval Art & the Plague
    Medieval Art & the Plague

    Bring out your


    dead!
    Medieval Art & the Plague

    An obsession
    with death.
    Boccaccio in The
    Decameron
    The victims ate lunch with
    their friends and dinner with
    their ancestors.
    The Danse Macabre
    Attempts to Stop the Plague

    “Leeching”
    A Doctor’s
    Robe
    Attempts to Stop the Plague

    Flagellanti:
    Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!
    Attempts to Stop the Plague
    Pograms against the Jews

    “Golden Circle”
    obligatory badge
    “Jew” hat
    Death Triumphant !:
    A Major Artistic Theme
    A Little Macabre Ditty
    “A sickly season,” the merchant said,
    “The town I left was filled with dead,
    and everywhere these queer red flies
    crawled upon the corpses’ eyes,
    eating them away.”

    “Fair make you sick,” the merchant


    said,
    “They crawled upon the wine and
    bread.
    Pale priests with oil and books,
    bulging eyes and crazy looks,
    A Little Macabre Ditty (2)
    “I had to laugh,” the merchant said,
    “The doctors purged, and dosed, and
    bled;
    “And proved through solemn
    disputation
    “The cause lay in some constellation.
    “Then they began to die.”
    “First they sneezed,” the merchant said,
    “And then they turned the brightest red,
    Begged for water, then fell back.
    A Little Macabre Ditty (3)
    “I came away,” the merchant said,
    “You can’t do business with the dead.
    “So I’ve come here to ply my trade.
    “You’ll find this to be a fine
    brocade…”

    And then he
    sneezed……….!
    The Mortality
    Rate
    35% - 70%

    25,000,000
    dead !!!
    What were the
    political,
    economic,
    and social effects
    of the Black

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