1. The Black Death

2. The Famine of
By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate.
A population crisis developed.
Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between because of excessive rain.
As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died.
One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.

3. The Culprits

4. The Disease Cycle Human is infected!
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria.
Bacteria
multiply in
flea’s gut.
Human is infected!
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.
Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria.

5. Cause of the Plague
Fleas On Rats

6. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

8. Forms of the Plague Bubonic: Fleas of Rats
Septicaemic: Attacks the blood
Pneumonic: Attacks the lungs

9. Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

10. From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411

11. Medieval Art & the Plague

12. Medieval Art & the Plague
Bring out your dead!

13. Plague in Film
Bring Out Your Dead

14. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

15. Boccaccio in The Decameron
The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.

16. The Danse Macabre

17. Lancing a Buboe

18. Attempts to Stop the Plague
“Leeching”
A Doctor’s Robe

19. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Flagellanti: Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!

20. Flagellant
Chanting

21. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Pograms against the Jews
“Golden Circle” obligatory badge
“Jew” hat

22. The Mortality Rate
35% - 70%
25,000,000 dead !!!

23. Plague Warning Ad Create a warning ad for the plague.
You should include the following info:
cause of the disease
Symptoms
what can happen if you get it
You should include a picture and make this look neat and presentable.