ENG 1100 Chapter Notes -Pneumonic Plague
14 Dec 2014
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The thesis and outline of this is the end of the world": the black death . Thesis: the black death, which brought death and destruction throughout europe, was seen as the wrath of god as punishment for all the sins committed by man: symptoms of the disease. 2: how most people reacted (inhumanely) vs. how few reacted (humanely) a) New nuns would replace the previous nuns often: how different cities reacted to the plague, funeral bells and criers" who announced death were silenced. i) In england, a bishop gave permission to make confession to each other, and even allowed it to be made to a woman if there was no man present. If there was no priest to administer the final blessing, then faith must be enough: clement vi granted remission of sin to all, mortality in the clergy was varied, but high, due to the nature of their work.
