ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Necrosis, Middle Ages, Plague Doctor
26 Aug 2016
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Second part of the midterm is open book based on the hard copy of the plague book. Second: mainland european 1348-52 (sometimes thought of being 1346-53) These dates of the outbreak are linked to historical events: war, trade, political events, religion. The disease is pandemic through vector transmission. The disease symptoms have many forms: notably aural necrosis, buboes and lung compromise. Human to human transmission compounds vector transmission. Ags on ships with plague was not allowed to dock. Features of change most dramatic change to culture during medieval period. 5thc-15thc (middle ages) in relation to the black plague. Miasma theories (transmission through the air) (thought of after punishment by faith) Food, land, supplies (compromised because of plague) Black death as the image of pestilence and plague. Medieval people understood the black death as product of malign in uences of. Often depicted as arrows or angels of death in medieval imagery.
