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2 Coach Terry Ferguson Weatherford High School

3 The Culprits

4 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.

5 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

6 The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

7 From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411

8 Lancing a Buboe

9 The Disease Cycle Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria. Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria. Bacteria multiply in flea’s gut. Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound. Human is infected!

10 Medieval Art & the Plague

11 Bring out your dead!

12 Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

13 Boccaccio in The Decameron The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.

14 The Danse Macabre

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

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

18 Attempts to Stop the Plague Pograms against the Jews “Jew” hat “Golden Circle” obligatory badge

19 Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme

20 The Mortality Rate 35% - 70% 25,000,000 dead !!!

21 On your Notes page….. 3 R’s Summary Retell, Relate, Reflect What were the political, economic, and social effects of the Black Death??


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