The Black Plague
The book I chose to read was titled The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages. The author of the book is Geoffrey Marks. Doubleday & company, inc. in 1971, published The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages in Garden City, New York. The book was a great source of information. It gave vast descriptions of many aspects of the plague. Some of the topics it covered were as follows: what was the plague, the rising of the plague, the Black Death coming to Europe and how it spread, and life during the plague. I will now explain what I have read about these topics.There were many devastating diseases throughout history but none so devastating as the Black Death. Nothing compares to the reflective imprint it left on history. When this disease was present it killed all in its way. Before the plague hit Europe the population was estimated at 100,000,000:after the plague only 75,000,000 people were living. This means that 25,000,000 helpless people died during a four-year period, the plague years, 1347-1351. The plague came out of nowhere: it wasn't there one day and there it was the next. The people were helpless when it reached them. The doctors had no way to
As Agnolo di Tura predicted those of us living now, long after the Black Death, cannot truly imagine what things were like then. Many people would have described it as absolute horror. Many had to watch friends and neighbors die in front of them. They saw dead bodies lying throughout the streets of the town. They were forced to watch in anguish as people carried dead bodies out of others house to be piled into a wagon which was eventually emptied into a pit where bodies were being dumped by the hundreds each day. Many people died from the plague but those who it hadn't hit yet died of other things. There was no one there to take care of the farms and livestock and many people with a simple illness that could be taken care of with a simple medicine die because there was no doctors to take care of them. The city had to put everything to a halt. cure it and also they had no way to prevent it. The Black Death coming to Europe and how it spread:
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