Title: The Black Death
1The Black Death
1347 - 1351
Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS
Chappaqua, NY
2The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the
bacteria.
Bacteria multiply in fleas gut.
Human is infected!
Fleas gut cloggedwith bacteria.
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into
human wound.
3The Culprits
4The 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 ofstarvation povertywas
susceptibility todisease.
51347 Plague Reaches Constantinople!
6The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemia Formalmost 100 mortality rate.
7From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411
8Lancing a Buboe
9Medieval Art the Plague
Bring out your dead!
10Medieval Art the Plague
An obsession with death.
11Boccaccio in The Decameron
The victims ate lunch with their friends and
dinner with their ancestors.
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13Attempts to Stop the Plague
Leeching
A Doctors Robe
14Attempts to Stop the Plague
FlagellantiSelf-inflicted penance for our
sins!
15Attempts to Stop the Plague
Pograms against the Jews
Golden Circle obligatory badge
Jew hat
16Death Triumphant !A Major Artistic Theme
17The Mortality Rate
35 - 70
25,000,000 dead !!!