The disease spread from nation to nation, killing millions of people and seriously affecting their lives especially Britain. It is thought to be one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It is thought to have begun in the mid 1340’s in China, caused by dirty rodents who had infected fleas. The fleas travelled through Asia and lived on Rats and all sorts of other creatures. Some of these creatures became passengers on merchant ships that sailed to Europe.
The invasion by barbarians in Rome led Europe into major depression. This is because Rome was considered a superpower in Europe and when a superpower falls, the trade and economy in Europe will weaken. The bad times of the economy continued when the plague (also known as the Black Death) happened from 1350 to 1450. This plague was almost fatal and it took half of the population in Europe. The only way of escaping of the disease was to move from the city to the country.
What impact did Plague have on England during the period 1348-1500? Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as ‘the Black Death’, was responsible for the death of up to 200 million people globally, including at the very least “over one-third of the population” of England. Clearly such a major historic event had many widespread impacts. These range of impacts range from impacts on popular culture and art, including the eerie and spectacle late-medieval fascination with death in images such as the Danse Macabre¸ to widespread persecution of minorities, such as the Jews, blamed for transmitting the disease. However this essay will focus on what it believes to be the greatest impacts the Plague had on England – the impact on demographics, the impact on social mobility, and the impact on religion.
It began in the spring of 1346 in the steppe region when the Mongols launched an attack on the Italian merchant’s last trading station, Kaffa in the Crimea (Benedictow 3) Others thought that it originated from earthquakes and fire, people even believed that it was a punishment from God for their sins. “No ancient army came close to such a size, much less one operation in the barren environs of Jerusalem.” (Nardo 11) However we all know that these explanations are just myths. But many historians agree that the deadly disease originated from infected rodents that the Italian brought with them on their ships, and the black death migrated unnoticed from the Middle East to the area between the Black and Caspian seas (Benedictow 2). The actual origin is uncertain, but what we do know is that it arrived in several parts of Asia, for example, Constantinople, Egypt, Sicily, Ireland, China, Italy and more, killing almost 70,000 people, (Nardo 6-7).However the major outbreak of plague was the one that England suffered in 1405. After roughly 500 years the Bubonic Plague
The Chronicle of Jean de Venette is a narrative of several historical events spanning the years of 1340 and 1368, written by the Carmelite friar Jean de Venette. The Black Death was the first and most severe manifestation of the Second Pandemic, probably caused by the Yesinia pestis bacteria. Originating in Central Asia, a disease known as plague spread slowly all over the world. Though accurate estimates of mortality are difficult to make, the recent trend has been to adjust the estimates upwards. The terrible disease caused not only massive numbers of deaths, but also caused many minority groups to be blamed and persecuted for "causing" the Black Death.
Timothy Benway Mr. Woods English 11, Period 9 October 12, 2012 The Black Plague or the Black Death is considered one of the most traumatic diseases that happened in America during the 14th century. The Black Plague originated in central China in 1333 as the population was overcame by starvation. The plague then spread to the Crimea where the Kipchak Mongols attacked the Genose carrying furs and silks from a place called Cyprus to Florence which was also suffering from famine. The Black Plague affected all walks of life including the rich and the poor. On November 1, 1348 the plague had finally reached London and by February 2, 1349 200
First the Black plague disease was started in Asia in the fourteenth century in Asia. This plague started spreading west and killed half of the populations in areas. This disease was spread by the merchants using the Silk Road by trading goods. According to Encounters in World History textbook, “The way a disease spreads in a particular society or region, for example, may tell us something about people’s lifestyles, their social conditions, patterns of mobility, and relationships with nature.” (Sanders, et al., 2006, p. 385, para. 2).
The Plague, also known as the black death, was one of the most fatal pandemics to ever happen. The disease started in Central Asia. It first infected fleas then rats. The rats started moving into cities, marking the start of a tremendous bloodshed. The disease infected sailors when rats immigrated into ships and kept finding its way through ports, spreading around in different continents.
The purpose of this essay is to reflect on the relationship between food and culture and how people in Shakespearian times used the two to overcome The Bubonic Plague. The Black Plague was an epidemic that took the lives of one-third of all Europeans during the time Shakespeare was alive. With the plague running rapid, many people became corrupt in order to find food and support there families. In Kastan’s A Companion to Shakespeare, he says, “the high prices and shortages of food, were wicked, wondering, idle people whose thefts were at the heart of all the trouble.” (34) He then goes on to say, in regards to the new corrupt people: Worse, the cost of imprisoning them all meant that there was no money left over to relieve the truly needy poor. His answer to these problems was straight forward: harsher laws and sharper law enforcement to stop the mouths of these people who laugh in their sleeves at the lenity of the law and the timorousness of the executioners of it… There was much seditious talk (for which many were hanged), and in Kent alone there were eleven riots connected with these shortages of grain between 1585 and 1603.
WHAT IS IT PART Well the black death is one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, a plague that swept through Europe and Asia which killed millions in the 1300's. A plague is a disease that spreads extremely quickly and kills many people violently. Most scientist think that the Black Death was caused by a type of bacteria called Yersinia Pestis carried by the oriental rat flea. These fleas infested black rats and unfortunately, due to the unsanitary lifestyles of humans during the Middle Ages, these rats were literally everywhere. Once contracted by a human the disease became airborne.