[HIST 124] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (15 pages long!)
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Plague pandemics: three kinds of plague: bubonic. - related to bloodstream: plague of justinian, 541-42 c. e. : 25+ million dead during 200 years and spread from the alexandria to the constantinople then to the rest of the mediterranean; 12-14th century theology -- religious views on the disease: doctrine of purgatory: transition stage between death and heaven -- site for cleansing and punishment, dante alighieri, comedia divina; inferno, purgatorio, and paradisio; High middle ages europe: 11-13th century, population and economic prospered but wages were still low -- land reclamation, high land prices and lower living standards, 13-14th century, disastrous harvest -- famines in england: 1272, 1277, 1283, 1292, Cause and spread: contemporary theories, divine wrath (christian"s idea) versus. Divine gift (muslim"s explanation): contagion, bad air: corruption of the atmosphere, miasmas; Later theories: malthusian: population crisis is the main factor for the spreading of plague, marxist: exploitation of the peasantry by the landed leaded to the crisis of feudalism;
