- The plague was in the fur of black rats and in the coats of infected fleas
- The plague spread all over Asia and into Europe.
- Famine in 1315, and countless people died.
- It would take 6 days for the swellings to occur after the person is bitten by the flea. The immune system would be affected in just a week. If it got to the lungs, people would die after just a few days of coughing up blood.
- The healthy were terrified, and they abandoned the sick.
- Husbands even shunned their wife and parents refused contact with their children.
- The bigger the city, the greater the shock.
- In the first wave of the plague in London, 300 people died every day.
- The bodies were laid toward the east so that when they rose again they would be facing Jerusalem.
- The plague spread through wales and other nearby countries by 1359, and then went across the sea to Ireland.
- Those who touched the dead or the sick were immediately infected themselves.
- The country was laid waste, farms and villages were abandoned and deserted.
- after the plague, there were no more serfs.
- It also ate away at the sense of security from the church.
- Plantagenet England had not prepared for the dead to take over the space of the living.
- these were th tomb thingies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_tomb for bishops, i think or wealthy people
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Notes 9/14- Black plague
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