What is a quote from the Black Plague?

“Neither physicians nor medicines were effective. Whether because these illnesses were previously unknown or because physicians had not previously studied them, there seemed to be no cure. There was such a fear that no one seemed to know what to do.

What did they call the Black Death in 1348?

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the second pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria.

What was the Black Death called in 1347?

the bubonic plague
The Death Toll In October 1347, a ship came from the Crimea and Asia and docked in Messina, Sicily. Aboard the ship were not only sailors but rats. The rats brought with them the Black Death, the bubonic plague. Reports that came to Europe about the disease indicated that 20 million people had died in Asia.

What happened during the Black Death between 1347 1349?

The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. People gathered on the docks were met with a horrifying surprise: Most sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those still alive were gravely ill and covered in black boils that oozed blood and pus.

What does the Decameron say about the plague?

In the Decameron, Boccaccio states some possibilities: “Some say that [the plague] descended upon the human race through the influence of the heavenly bodies, others that it was a punishment signifying God’s righteous anger at our iniquitous way of life.

Who was king during the Black plague?

Edward III
However, we do have an itinerary for Edward III, King of England during the first plague epidemic of 1348-49. England had been at war with France since 1337, but the conflict paused as the plague swept across Europe, beginning in Sicily in October 1347, possibly arriving by sea from the Crimea.

What is the Black Death in the Bible?

Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411) The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350.

How did the Black Death start?

The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density. Such an area is called a ‘plague focus’ or a ‘plague reservoir’. Plague among humans arises when rodents in human habitation, normally black rats, become infected.

Does the Black Death have a season?

The peculiar seasonal pattern of plague has been observed everywhere and is a systematic feature also of the spread of the Black Death. In the plague history of Norway from the Black Death 1348-49 to the last outbreaks in 1654, comprising over thirty waves of plague, there was never a winter epidemic of plague.

What are the best books about the Black Death?

Ole J. Benedictow is Emeritus Professor of History at the Universtiy of Oslo, Norway. The Black Death, 1346-1353. The Complete History (Boydell & Brewer, 2004) L.F. Hirst, The Conquest of Plague (Oxford, 1953).