8 4 13 Things Fall Apart The Black Death and Rebuilding Europe The Black Death as the Final Straw The Event Itself Plague as Endemic Explaining the Plague Astrological Biblical European Society Changes c 1350 1400 Problems with Trade Problems with Taxes New Agricultural and Economic Relationships Endemic Plague and the Towns Fear of the Foreign The Presence of Death Terms Ciompi The Black Death as the Final Straw The Event Itself Fathers abandoned child wife husband one brother another For this illness seemed to strike through the breath and the sight And so they died And nobody could be found to bury the dead for money or for friendship And in many places in Siena huge pits were dug and piled deep with great heaps of the dead And I buried my five children with my own hands and many others did likewise And there were many corpses about the city who were so sparsely covered with earth that dogs dragged them out and devoured their bodies Angelo di Tura Siena 1348 1 8 4 13 Pneumonic Bubonic Septicemic 2 8 4 13 Plague as Endemic Population Decline in Late Medieval Europe Explaining the Plague Astrological T he remote and first cause of the plague was a planetary conjunction which took place on March 20 1345 at one o clock in the afternoon in the sign of Aquarius Medical Faculty University of Paris 1348 Biblical T the disease started east of India when storms raged for three days On the first day frogs snakes lizards and scorpions rained from the skies On the second came thunder lightning and huge hail stones which caused an enormous mortality On the third day came a stinking fire and smoke which killed most of the remaining men and beasts and burnt up all the cities The whole province was attacked by these storms and the infection was carried by a stinking wind to the coast Anonymous Chronicler c 1348 3 8 4 13 European Society Changes c 1350 1500 Problems with Trade Problems with Taxes New Agricultural and Economic Relationships The Jacquerie 4 8 4 13 Endemic Plague and the Towns Plague doctor s protective clothing London 17th c Fear of the Foreign Campanellismo 5 8 4 13 The Cult of Death King Death Role of fortune in daily lives Death battles salvation eternal life 6 8 4 13 The Dance of Death Juxtaposition of the Living and the Dead 7 8 4 13 The Baggage Train of Death Death comes for all social classes genders and ages The miser Noblewomen 8 8 4 13 Old women Scholars Children 9 8 4 13 Young lovers Fools Monks 10 8 4 13 Death has a special relationship with women 11 8 4 13 12 8 4 13 13
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