MMW 13 Lecture 15: Lecture 15 -Black Death
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Pax mongolia: political stability- the four khanates, peace through fear, trade, people, ideas. Symptoms: shivering and high fever, shivering and high fever, vomiting, delirium, slurred speech, confusion, skin eruptions (buboes, in bubonic plague); blackish, pustule at point of inoculation, white coating on tongue, rapid pulse, fatigue, apathy, staggering, secondary pneumonia. Europe, two very different muslim governments: first incidence in europe and asia 1333-1369, caffa, seige 1343, accounts of turks launching infected bodies over the city wall. Stability as a cause because there was more commercial/global interaction. Karakhaluk (common muslim word for the black death: the universal plague, it does(cid:374)"t dis(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate. Speaks to necessary purity: overpopulation and dissolution of society, astrological events (popular) Matter coming from the heavens: the debate about contagion, orthodox v. andalusian sources. 3: mongols, abu hafs umar ibn al-wardi (d. 1348), palestine. How does it spread: miasma contaminated air, contagious, causes, moral punishment for sin, natural, astronomical, sickly people.
