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Nature of black death

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Debate over disease vector

Rats and human flea spread disease

Pneumonic, bubobic

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How does Tanzania confiem disease vector?

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2012 study found that flea is best vector as it doesnt vomit out blood

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How many did plague kill?

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40-50% of european popn

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Causes: famine

How did famine worsen?

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  • weakened immune systems

- increased severity of plague

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Causes: famine

What has andrew appleby put forth?

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  • fluctuations in disease run independant to econ conditions (famine)
  • study of london bills of mortality and series of bread prices establish lack of connection between disease and dearth
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Causes: famine

Counter to appleby?

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  • dearth isnt famine
  • appleby’s approach isnt sophisticated given new studies to prove otherwise
  • nutritional status of individuals is hardly throughly recorded
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Causes: warefare and trade

Origin of plague

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  • travelled across asia along trade routes and silk road
  • mongols said to have during seige of Caffa 1347 chucked corpses over –> genoese fled to sicily and spread disease
  • eruopes trade routes meant that it quickly spread
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Causes: warefare and trade

War in england

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Vs. Scots

They all get plague

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Effects: social and cultural

What does J.M.W bean argue?

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  • plague didnt affect population
  • India 19th and 20th century outbreaks of plague and cholera –> more babies
  • says following epidemic there are fewer dependants –> standards of living increase –> birth rates increase
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Effects: social and cultural

Impact ob religious society

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  • Canterbury Cathedral Priory asserts 1349-1517, 1/3 deaths among monks due to plague
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Effects: social and cultural

Impact on medicine- negative

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  • medicine in disarray
  • less trust
  • chroniclers e.f Henry Knighton c.1398 speak of King Tharsis who see pope to get baptized fearing plague is wrath of god
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Effects: social and cultural

Medicine positive

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  • post 1360 chroniclers more positive –> frequent claims of miracle cures
  • 1383 pope’s doctor sees decline in plague deaths and claims human effort can reduce
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Effects: social and cultural

The religious people

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  • flagellants movement
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Effects: politics

How did wages impact polititcs?

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  • vast deaths, greater bargaining power of workers, higher wages
  • 1351 Statutes of labourers freeze wages
  • inspires peasents revolt 1381
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Effects: politics

Summarise 1381 revolt

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  • Wat tyler leads angry farmers
  • revolters promised reforms
  • richard I meets them
  • he murders tyler
  • its business as usual
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Effects: politics

Jews

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  • Samuel K. Cohn –> burning of jews –> were accused of posioning
  • antisemtic planned rage?
  • scapegoats? Narbonne france april 1348 beggars were also burned
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Effects: politics

Black death stopped movements?

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  • tuscany workers movement stopped.
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Effect: economy

Effect on english overseas trade

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  • E.M carus-wilson –> 5 years following black death exports of woolen cloth never reached 2000 cloths –> 1350-1: grain prices increase
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Effect: economy

Vast death improving econ power of peasants

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  • greater wages, due to more demand
  • could afford better living conditions
  • renrs decreased
  • john saltmarsh suggests declining rents indicate declining popn.
  • 1300-1460: wages of artisans rose
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Effects: standards of living

Quality of buildings- pro argument

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  • post 1400 mure durable housing

- fewer people so timber could be abdunant

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Effect: economy

Quality of buildings- counter

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  • houses neglected often due to dispute with landlord
  • curved timber in place west midlands 1313-25
  • 1200’s surname carpenter
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Effect: economy

Did all peasants gain

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  • villeins vs. Freemen
  • 1/3 of peasant population gained livelihood from wages
  • wage of skilled labourers increaaed 66% 1340-1390 (phelps brown)

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