PHSC 401 Lecture 3: The Black Death
7 Feb 2017
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Ancient greece (recap): birth of naturalistic explanations of the world, including health, illness, the body, humoralism: humors (qualities/elements) Balance between humors, qualities, individual and his/her environment. Black death: challenge to humoral model and medieval society. The fall of rome: 5-6th century: fractured into kingdoms: long decline, military defeat by goths, 378, defeat of last roman emperor by germans, 476. Power shifts to east: rise of islam, 7th century c. e. Expansion: including fall of holy land and jerusalem, and constantinople (1453) the capital of the byzantine empire (eastern roman empire) Expansion goes all the way into europe, extending into capital in baghdad to across north africa and the middle east. Groups move up into spain and western europe: rise of kingdoms in west (charlemagne, 800 a. d. ) Islam: muslims embraced greco-roman culture they encountered, conquering alexandria, egypt. Once the intellectual center of hellenistic greece, meant muslim intellectuals had broad access to the greatest works of classical world.
