The Black Death

The Black DeathThe Black Death

• Also called the bubonic plague or simply The Plague

• Killed 25 million people between 1347 – 1352 AD

Victims had headaches, nausea, aching joints, fever of 101-105 degrees, vomiting, and a general feeling of illness. Symptoms

took from 1-7 days to appear. The main symptom was enlarged and inflamed lymph

nodes (around arm pits, neck and groin).

How it was Transmitted

The plague spread through trade and armies.

Effect on European CivilizationEffect on European Civilization

Effects of the PlagueEffects of the Plague

• Increased Anti-Semitism• Economy suffered

• Serfs left their fields• Price of labor and Prices for goods rose

• Social Unrest• Upheaval in the Church

• Church had no answers to why the plague happened

• Multiple popes• John Wycliffe—attacked church’s corruption

Ring around the RosyRing around the Rosy

• Ring around the rosy: rosary beads give you God’s help

• A pocket full of posies: used to stop the odor of rotting bodies which was at one point thought to cause the plague. It was also used widely by doctors to protect them from infected patients.

• Ashes, ashes: the church burned the dead when burying them because to laborious.

• We all fall down: we all die!

The Effect on Music and Art The Effect on Music and Art "The Dance of Death"by Hans Holbein the

Younger

     Before the Black Death, music was happy and

frequently heard. During the Black Death music was

played very grimly or never played at all. The only

exceptions were people who decided that since they were

going to die anyway, they might as well spend the rest of their life in happiness. The

somber change in art and music demonstrated the grim

reality of the world around

them.

Who did the plague attack?Who did the plague attack?

Kings, Nobles, Knights, Serfs…EVERYONE!

Victims “ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise”