Reactions to the Black Death

Question 1

Treatments - Camomile lotion

Answer 1

Offered some relief from inflammation of the skin- eased the pain a little

Question 2

Treatments

Answer 2

Blood letting
Balancing 4 humours
live chickens over buboes

Question 3

Did treatments work?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

Was God to blame?

Answer 4

People believed that God had punished them and testing their faith

Question 5

What physical act did religious people take on to try and stop the plague?

Answer 5

Prayed

Question 6

What were flagellants?

Answer 6

People who would walk in line whipping the person in front of them with a leather whip

Question 7

How did Bishops react?

Answer 7

Ordered large processions of Priests, confessing the nations sins

Question 8

Church services

Answer 8

At special church services, people would eat blessed bread

Question 9

Supernatural theory

Answer 9

People believed the movements of planets caused the Black Death

Question 10

Miasma

Answer 10

Belief that it infected through invisible poison in the air (miasma)

Question 11

Posies of Flowers

Answer 11

Carried flowers to purify air in house

Question 12

Avoiding eye contact

Answer 12

Thought you could catch the plague by looking infected in the eyes

Question 13

Temperature

Answer 13

Not getting too hot as miasma might infect through sweaty skin

Question 14

How far did the plague travel?

Answer 14

500 miles in 500 days

Question 15

How much of the population was infected by 1349?

Answer 15

60%

Question 16

What was done with dead plague victims?

Answer 16

Buried in mass graves because too many people were dying

Question 17

When did the plague die down?

Answer 17

1350

Question 18

What did they do with the bodies in towns?

Answer 18

Throw them onto streets

Question 19

Kings message in 1349?

Answer 19

Wrote letter to mayor to clear the mess

Question 20

Plague in 1400

Answer 20

Plague was mainly in towns