HIST 1F96 Lecture Notes - Puritans
Document Summary
Europe and africa: medieval europe and black death , 15th century and the development of nation states, protestant reformation: puritans, english society, french society, spain and the reconquest, africa. Black death moves through europe (1347 1352): bubonic plague wipes out about a 1/3 of the population of europe. A bacterial infection spread from rats to people via the fleas. Bubonic stands for the bubous or the pus filled bloody nodes. Treatment for this was to drain a litre of blood. The disease was caused by jupiter, saturn and mars aligning: physicians told patients to: flee quickly, go far, and come back slowly, seen as punishment from god. Jews were accused of punishing christian wells: quarantine comes from the italian word 40 days. Ships stayed off shore of italy for forty days if there was plague on board: all societies cope. Martin luther: only one catholic church in europe, run by the pope, church very corrupt.
