The Black Death-1346?

Question

Can somebody give me some interesting facts on the Black Death in 1346??

Answer 1

due to the labour shortage wages rose
laws were passed forbidding people to leave their employment
due to the ignorance of medical matters vapors or humors were thought to cause the disease
it was often thought that one disease could drive out another so many people purposely became infected with venereal disease to drive out the plague

Answer 2

It's widely believed that the Black Death was a form of the Ebola virus and not the later Bubonic Plague of the 17th century due to it's hemorrhagic fever and the speed in which it spread from the east and across europe wiping out almost half of the continent.

It caused great social upheaval and began to bring about the end of serfdom as for the first time labour was in short supply because of so many deaths, and men were able to charge for services and were no longer tied to one particular landowner.

Answer 3

'The Black Death', Britain, 1348-49

"The pestilence which had first broken out in the land occupied by the Saracens became so much stronger that, sparing no dominion, it visited with the scourge of sudden death the various parts of all the kingdoms, extending from that land to the northward, including even Scotland, destroying the greater part of the people. For it began in England in Dorsetshire...in the year of the Lord 1348, and immediately advancing from place to place it attacked men without warning and for the most part those who were healthy.

And about the feast of All Saints, reaching London, it deprived many of their life daily, and increased to so great an extent that from the feast of Purification till after Easter there were more than two hundred bodies of those who had died buried daily in the cemetery which had been then recently made near Smithfield besides the bodies which were in other graveyards of the same city. In these parts it ceased about the feast of St. Michael, in the year of the Lord, 1349."

Anon (Anonymous)

*Around two million died in Britain.

Answer 4

Try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

I read once that the plague by passed a city in Italy - I think it was Milan. The reason for this was that when the plague carrying black rats moved into that city the brown rats fought them off. Hence the plague did not gain a foothold.

Answer 5

Bubonic Plague, spread by rats, enhanced by unsanitary living, killed like 25% of Europeans of the time. Hit human population centers really heavily, places like London in England, or Munich, in Germay.

Answer 6

The most important thing to stress about the Black Death is its has not been positively identified.

Answer 7

It wiped out a third of the population of Europe through the rat carriers, which were also on board the ships

Answer 8

The rats and fleas theory has been discredited. Study of die ratios and the bones of victims suggests it was more likely to have been a virus infection.