HIST 214 Lecture 12: 012 LEC 17OCT2018 - HIST 214
24 Jan 2019
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The 14th century was full of problems: hundred years war, famine, disease, plague, papal schism, peasant revolts. Plague enters into europe: middle ages had little understanding of microbes, but they were much cleaner" than we give the middle ages credit for, bad weather; bad harvests; bad famine; bad on a macro scale. Little ice age issue; temperatures were colder and wetter, therefore bad harvest. Justinian"s plague, 541 ce: entered through egypt: fourteen more waves of the plague through to 767 ce, black death, 1348 1720s, third pandemic, 1850s 1950s. The black death : a 19th century term, probably mistranslated of the latin alma, meaning both. Terrible and black : originally came through east asia, through the city of caffa, rats on the boat of the trade routes from caffa. Plague comes in three forms: bubonic (in the lymph nodes, septicemic (in the bloodstream, pneumonic (severe lung infection)
