Buboonic Plague
No one - peasant or aristocrat - was safe from the disease [bubonic plague], and once it was contracted, a horrible and painful death was almost a certainty. The dead and the dying lay in the streets abandoned by frightened friends and relatives (482).This certainly paints an accurate and horrifying picture of the fourteenth century during the plague. The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or The Plague, (Hindley 103) was one of the major scourges of the Middle Ages. It killed indiscriminately without remorse or thought of consequences. Because the plague was so widespread, theories about causes, blame and a variety of supposed cures abounded. Most of these were without basis or fact and relied on myths and rumors. Theories for the causes and blames came from ignorance and hate, two horrible things married by fear. Some of the cures were not much better than the plague itself.The plague was transmitted to humans by fleas from infected rats that nested in people's roofs (Matthew 154). Fourteenth century man had no concept of how the disease was spread or how it could be stopped. The plague was transmitted to western Europe from China along trade routes (Matthew 154). Once the plague had reac
The Civilization of the Middle Ages. The reality according to Herlihy was that, "In the cure of these illnesses, neither the advice of a doctor nor the power of any medicine appeared to help and to do any good" (353). This horrible disease killed young and old, rich and poor. Medieval man also knew that animals could catch the disease from a person's material possessions (Herlihy 353) but they never realized they could catch the plague from animals. Some believed that if they lived moderately, consumed the most delicate foods and wines, and abstained from sex, that their resistance to the plague would be higher (Herlihy 354). ) you would soon be afflicted with the disease (Herlihy 353). The people of this period had no idea what they were dealing with. The reign of terror lasted for twenty years in the fourteenth century (Cantor 477). The first is a "corrupted atmosphere" or bad air, the second was the alignment of the planets, and the third the wrath of God (Ziegler 3).
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