The Renaissance was a time period that started around 1300s C.E. and lasted to the 1500s and began in Italy and over time spread to Europe (Frey 316). The renaissance was known for adopting new ideas, the study of humanism, breathtaking art, and the era of deadly diseases that spread rapidly from one person to another and killed people with in days. Although the Renaissance consisted of discovering new and exciting topics, a major outbreak occurred. This outbreak was known as the Bubonic Plague or the “Black Death” which had arrived in Europe in 1348 (Woodville). The Bubonic Plague impacted Europe and negatively economically, politically, and socially. To began the Bubonic Plague affected Europe economically by impacting trade and commerce, …show more content…
Although they planned to stop trading goods they did not and it caused the plague to spread to even more people and cause those people to become very sick and died with in days. Also the plague disrupted trade manufacturing because so many people had died and this caused lots of jobs to open up, and so many jobs opened up with not a lot of people in the region businesses could not get enough people to work for them (Woodville). Frey stated “Trade and commerce slowed almost to a halt during the plague years” (57). Besides trade and commerce being affected by the Bubonic plague, doctors and medicine also had an affect too. When somebody had the plague they had no official way to cure it, but people believed that plague doctors had to come to that person with plagues home and cut open the veins in the victim 's arm and drain all of the bad blood out of their body to stay alive (Dunn 8). Since plague doctors drained their blood it caused people to lose a large quantity of their blood and they would have to find a way to clean their own blood or get new blood which was very dangerous to do. Back then the doctors did not have any technology to help …show more content…
Lastly Europeans were affected by the Bubonic Plague in a social way too for example prejudice, segregation, population, and their daily life. When the plague first broke out in Europe Christians and other people thought the Jews went out and poisoned their water to try to kill them (Macdonald 15). From this thought it caused the Christians to go out and kill and burn thousands of Jews for thinking that they tried to poison them because Christians were “better” than Jews (Woodville). Later on people found out that the plague was not because of the Jews, it was because people were not properly sanitary and their houses and areas they worked in were infested with dirty rats and animals carrying diseases. When Jews were being blamed for supposedly bringing the plague they then moved east to Poland and Russia (Whipps). This caused almost every single Jew to leave Europe and most of the population was wiped out because of the plague, a quarter and a half of Europe 's population had then decreased (Woodville). This did not just happen to Europe, it also happened to places in China, India, and other lands to the east of Europe. Europeans daily life did not help from trying to prevent getting the Bubonic Plague. People were not very sanitary and had lots of rats and invested animals that lived in their homes, and people shared their beds and clothing which caused diseases to spread more rapidly from one person to another (Orent 144). From these actions that Europeans did in their
It was a crisis where no one knew why death kept coming. Not only did kill, but it impacted how life was lived, too. Overall, the black death forever damaged the social pillars in Europe. One of the social pillars was how family was, and with a crisis like the plague, family wasn’t the biggest factor in surviving. In the event that the plague was spreading, it scared others and led them to panic.
The primary source I chose for my analysis is “A Most Terrible Plague: Giovanni Boccaccio”. This document focuses on the account of how individuals acted when a plague broke out and hundreds of people were dying every day. This source is written by Giovanni Boccaccio as it is a story told by him and friends as they passed the time. Boccaccio discusses how “the plague had broken out some years before in the Levant, and after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc along the way, had now reached the west.” Readers of this source can assume there wasn’t much cures and medicinal technology weren’t used much during this time as even their physicians stayed away from the sick because once they got close they would also get sick.
The plague was a disease that devastated Europe and the Christian population. Christians handled the plague very differently than the other
The downside to this is that it allowed disease to spread all over the continents. The bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death, killed millions of Europeans. Over the duration of the plague, the European population went from 53.2 million to 37 million (Document 1). This shows how devastating the Black Death was in Europe. The Mongols controlled China for a portion of this time.
The growing population allowed the infected fleas, all over the body, to jump from body to body much quicker and easily than before, increasing the spread of the plague throughout Europe. The growing population also bought on a drought in food meaning the people could not keep up nutrition to protect themselves from the fast growing plague. The increase in population for villages also meant that there was a lot less living space making the homes more cramped and closely packed allowing the plague to move more quickly throughout Europe. The trade and trade routes were a major part towards the spread of the plague but was not the only way the Black Death
The Bubonic plague ended up being catastrophic, and so devastating to European society because it caused changes in attitude towards religion, changes in population, and an increase of antisemitism. The Black Death spread so quickly through Europe that people did not even have time to process what was going on. As seen in the map “The Bubonic Plague spreads through Europe,”
The cramped living conditions, lack of proper medical care, and even lack of attention for the sick helped the virus spread. With the medical knowledge available at the time that is not hard to fathom. Plus one has to take into count self-preservation. The best chance to stay healthy was to avoid anyone who may have the plague or someone who has possibly come into contact with a victim of it. Which was basically impossible in those conditions.
The reason the bubonic plague was so devastating to the European society is because no one was prepared for so many people to die so quickly. This event that reached Italy in the spring of 1348 was one of the most deeply stressing moments of humanity that faced most of Europe. No only did 50% of Europe’s population die it affected every single part of the European society. The culture, education, economy, religion, and the simplicity of life was turned upside down from this epidemic. Not only was were the symptoms of the plague bad, while you had the symptoms you suffered with the misery effects of the plague that there was no cure for.
The Bubonic Plague (Black Death) came to the eastern Mediterranean along the shipping routs. It reached Italy in spring of 1348. By the time the disease spread between 25% and 50% of Europes population had died (document 1, (Source: EyeWitnesstoHistory.com) the Bubonic Plague was spread because in this time there was not any place to put garbage and wast products like we have today, so they would just leave the trash/wast anywhere and everywhere and the result of this would bring rats and many other animals, and with these animals they had fleas and eventually the fleas would get to the people and the humans would get sick and spread it to everyone. Some symptoms of the Bubonic Plague were large swelling lumps which they called "buboes" sizing
Europe in the fifteen hundreds was a dangerous, local, hierarchic, tradition-bound, slow moving, and poor filled with the tasks of providence, salvation and community. Europe during the fifteen hundreds were a dangerous place; disease, famine, and violence all prevented the population of the era to live a long life. One of the major killers during the time was disease. Disease and plagues killed major parts of the population, the bubonic plague, for example, claimed the lives of perhaps a third of Europe’s population in five years.
In mid-fourteenth century Europe a plague (also known as the Black Death) appeared in which the first wave killed millions of people. But the plague didn’t stop there, it persisted, spreading around the whole known world and exerting its power on people up until the eighteenth century. In Europe there were many responses to the plague which included helping to stop and cure the plague, profiting off it, and trying to protect and care for their loved ones. One response to the plague was to help stop and cure the plague. As the traveler Heinrich von Staden observes, “....
The Bubonic Plague, a Turning Point in World History During the 14th century CE, in Medieval Europe, the Bubonic Plague started in Mongolia (China) spreading west through trade routes bringing illness and death. The Bubonic Plague is an epidemic disease that resulted in big swellings in the armpits and couldn’t be cured with medicine. Based on an evaluation of the Bubonic plague, it can be considered a turning point in world history because it was a major factor in the decline of population, economy, and affected religion.
Since it was so difficult to produce goods or trade them the price rose very high. Due to the plague, many people died which meant that the wages for the people who were alive increased and many of them were wanted that they weren't subjected to only one lord. The lords tried to mostly go at the peasants as they would give them a reasonable wage and this way the lord was also able to keep them working for
The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague was a disease that was spread through fleas found on rodents. It took place during the late middle ages (1340 - 1400) in mainly Europe and Asia and killed approximately 25 million people. The Bubonic plague was a turning point in history because it caused an advancement in medicine and hygiene, destabilized the Roman Catholic church and caused one of the greatest recessions in history. However, there were a few things that stayed the same, such as the manor system, agriculture, and aspects of medicine.
During the mid-fourteenth century, a plague hit Europe. Initially spreading through rats and subsequently fleas, it killed at least one-third of the population of Europe and continued intermittently until the 18th century. There was no known cure at the time, and the bacteria spread very quickly and would kill an infected person within two days, which led to structural public policies, religious, and medical changes in Europe. The plague had an enormous social effect, killing much of the population and encouraging new health reforms, it also had religious effects by attracting the attention of the Catholic Church, and lastly, it affected the trade around Europe, limiting the transportation of goods. As a response to the plague that took place