The Black Plague 1347-1353

ALTERED LANDSCAP

E Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'The Triumph of Death,' depicting European life after the plague.

1347-1353

Medieval Life

Winter Landscape; 1565- Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Yersinia Pestis

Buboes

1. Bubonic- arm, neck, upper legs swollen lymph glands.

1-6 days die2. Pnuematic- Y.

pestis infects lungs. Cough up blood. 1-3 days die. 3. Septicemic-

delirium, seizures. Circulation system collapses. Bleeds internally. Dead in 24 hours.

30-60 people out of every 100 people succumbed to the Black Death.

Alessandro Triani; Triumph of Death 1350Rich nobles out for a picnic. Unaware of Death in the background.

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Plague Mask

William Blake; Europe- A Prophecy- Plague 1794

Brueghel -The Blue Cloak; 1559

Pisa Plague• 4 saints Trying to protect town in distance• Ravages

of Plague shown by angels with spears.

St. Roch 1376 1348

A Procession of Flagellantsin the Netherlands, ca, 1350

Swiss Microbiologist; Alexandre Yersin- 1894 Finally isolated bacteria.

Fleas on Rats

Works Cited

"The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349." The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2014. "Library of Congress Home." Library of Congress

Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Jan. 2014. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Home." The

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2014.

Zahler, Diane. The Black Death. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century, 2009. Print.