Black Death,1348
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- The Black Death, 1348
- Believed causes
- Miasma (bad smells from an overflowing privy or food, corrupt the air)
- God is angry (not enough people have been attending Church and behaving properly)
- Imbalance of the four humours
- New fancy clothes ( God is angry and sends the plague to teach them a lesson because they've been showing off their wealth)
- The Jews had poisoned the wells and springs
- Huge earthquake in China in 1347
- Astrology (planets and their movement)
- Actual cause was the fleas on rats, spread through overcrowded towns and ports
- Prevention/treatment
- Avoid eating too much
- Avoid the victims
- Attend the Church
- Bathe in urine three times a day and drink it once a day
- Avoid having sex too much-excitement can weaken you
- Flagellation (walking through the city barefoot whipping themselves to show their regret for their sins to God)
- People kept the air moving by ringing bells or keeping birds to fly around the house
- Fines for throwing litter were increased
- People carried sweet-smelling herbs or lit fires to overpower the bad air
- Prayer
- By the 1370s there were at least 12 teams of rakers clearing animal dung from the streets
- Bleeding with leaches
- Pop open the bubbles to release the diesease
- Attach an alive chicken to the bubbles
- Drink mixture of vinegar an poisonous mercury
- Short term impact
- 1/3 of the English population died
- Food not harvested and rotted, cattle escaped, whole villages died and disappeared
- Food shortages in towns- many rich farmers switched to sheep farming- needed fewer peasants leading to shortage of food
- Long term impact
- Upset the feudal system-many peasants left their land to search for better pay, encouraged by other lords who needed harvest
- Led to Statue of Labourers (1351), peasants banned from moving and restricted to 1346 wages
- Anger at these rules eventually caused the Peasants Revolt in 1381
- Church lost lots of experienced Priests as those who survived were accussed of cowardice so the church reputation was badly damaged
- Believed causes
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