HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Simony, Purgatory, Indulgence
20 Sep 2012
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Why was it so bad: demographic disasters. 1300, population had used up all of the land. Were producing as much food as they could. One lives with what one makes: no surplus. Famine: 1315-1322, weakened population, food was scarce, go to extremes to get food, punishment from g-d, poor sanitary conditions, no medical cure. When and where: europe, 1346, came from the east (traders, 1347 hit constantinople, 1348 hit france, 1348 ( end date") Does not mean plague no longer existed. End of period: plague followed the trade routes. How it entered europe and how it spread. What: yersinia pestis, bacteria, on fleas, rats, and ships, symptoms. Discolourations of the skin: combination of three different plagues which hit different parts of the body. Started with the lips, spread to the lungs. Explains why some people died without the buboes": can"t establish the exact death rates. 1/5 of europe"s population died.
