Black Death Intro
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What am I?
My tongue has turned brown and my breath has started to stink!
I am feeling a bit dizzy and weak!
Small boils are starting to appear under my arms and between my legs!
Small black blotches have spread all over my body!
The boils under my arms have grown to the size of apples!
I am starting to vomit and cough
up blood!
I am sweating
and getting a
fever!
I am dying!
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WHEN ?HOW ?
WHO ?
WHAT ?
WHY ?
WHERE ?
In the 14th centuryA deadly disease struck,Your family and strangers would die,It was just sheer bad luck!Death to the infected normally came in a week,Rats on a ship were to blame, so to speak.From Asia, to Europe, then to EnglandIt started at sea but quickly spread to land!
From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411
Medieval Art & the Plague
Bring out your dead!
Symptoms
My tongue has turned brown and my breath has started to stink!
I am feeling a bit dizzy and weak!
Small boils are starting to appear under my arms and between my legs!
Small black blotches have spread all over my body!
The boils under my arms have grown to the size of apples!
I am starting to vomit and cough
up blood!
I am sweating
and getting a
fever!
I am dying!
The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form:
almost 100% mortality rate.
Task
Guess the right order that the symptoms occurred.
Write them into the 6 boxes in your storyboard and produce an illustration for each one
Causes
Scientific reasons?
Magic / Superstition?
Religious reasons?
Some people said it was a punishment from God
Others blamed a French sailor who arrived in England
If you touched the dead or the sick you would catch the plague
Jews were believed to have caused the plague by poisoning the wells
Plague was from the Heavens and fell down as rain onto those who had sinned
The main cause was the position of the planets, if they were close together, terrible things were to come
Medieval Art & the Plague
S I N
CuresWear a
magpie’s beak around your
neck
Cut a hole into your skull to let out evil spirits
Hold sweet herbs to your
mouth to drive away the bad
air
Sit in a sewer and the bad
smells will leave no room for black death
Swallow the powder of
crushed emeralds
Drink a glass of your own wee
twice a day
Open your veins and let a pint of blood pour out
Kill all the cats and dogs in
town
Shave a chickens bottom
and strap it to your sores
March around town whipping
yourself and ask for God’s forgiveness
Run away to another town or countryside
Clean up the streets of filth
and rubbish and burn clothes of
victims
Slice the buboes open and squeeze
out the poison the seal the wound with
poo
Wash yourself with vinegar
and rose water
Eat bread, fruit and vegetables but no meat or
fish
Attempts to Stop the Plague
A Doctor’s Robe
“Leeching”
Attempts to Stop the Plague
Flagellanti:Self-inflicted “penance” for our
sins!
From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411
Lancing a Buboe
Death Triumphant !:A Major Artistic
Theme
Task
1. Write down all the cures that might have made things BETTER
2. Write down all the cures that might have made things WORSE
Cures that worked Cures that did not work
Task
Imagine you are the Lord of the manor. You have to explain to the villagers what the cause of the Black Death is. Plan your answer like this so you
cover all possible explanations
Causes Suggested CureScientific reasons
Magical / superstition
Religious reasons
Other Cures…
“Bleed and make the patient vomit. The swellings should be softened with figs and cooked onions. Swellings should be cut open!”
“Toads should be thoroughly dried in the sun and placed on the buboes. The toad will draw out the puss into its own body!”
Real Cause
• http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/1sts/black_death/animation.html
The Culprits
The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the
bacteria.
Flea’s gut cloggedwith bacteria.
Bacteriamultiply inflea’s gut.
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.
Human is infected!