The Black Death
In this disquisition I will be analysing and elucidating
comprehensively the most horrific and anguished period of world
history known to all man past and present, the silent eradicating
ailment The Black Death. It claimed forty per cent of Britain’s
arrayed population between 1361-1369, before it was reintroduced with
another outbreak from 1374-1390. Possibility of subsisting above forty
years of life was subsided as there were two types of plagues, they
are Bubonic Plague of which the symptoms were cold feeling, tiredness,
horrible swellings of buboes and blisters, fever, unconsciousness for
a couple of days and finally death, which many believed to have been
condemned by fleas. The second out of the pair is pneumonic plague,
the symptoms consisted of breathing problems, coughing up blood and
due to the germs which were transferred to one another caused one’s
bereavement.
There were many diverse theories and incentives in to why, how and
where the Plague derived from. Many people believed the false motives
into why this was happening to them, as there was no scientific proof
individuals decided to assume what was said to be true. One of the
reasons people at the time believed the plague was bought into them by
the movement of the planets at certain times, or even Jewish settlers.
But no scientific knowledge what so ever resulted in the assumption
that the four humours of ones body, which consisted of yellow and
black bile, phlegm and blood. If any one of these four were unbalance,
it was though you either had or were soon enough going contract to the
Plague. As a last resort, many individuals turned to religion for aid.
During this time many people became very religious believing one of
many spiritual truths. The fact was when you had caught the deadly
disease many felt that God was punishing them for sinful actions,
which they’d committed. But outrageous circumstances were taken to
avoid being punished by god; a group of people call the flagellants
were people who punished themselves so severely using whips with