HIST-308 Lecture 11: Famine to plague
8 Nov 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The plague led to the swelling and blackening of lymph nodes. Most patients could expect death in 3 days. The plague came to europe from the sea via the black and mediterranean seas. The theory is that it arrived via fleas who were on rats on ships. Between 1348 and 1352, the ravages of the plague hit their deadliest peak. Plagues recurred in the future but less devastatingly each time around. The spread of the plague proved hard to control. This was because of the state of medicine. Even that was hard to execute even though milan and poland succeeded: pneumatic vs bubonic. Physicians of western europe already saw the plague. But this was only in the pneumatic form. They expected it to be air born, not flea born. The first deadly wave of the plague killed 1/3 of the population of europe. Florence lost 50k of 85k: economic consequences. Tensions emerged as the survivors scrambled for resources.
