The Bubonic Plague: The Causes Of The Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague is perhaps the greatest and horrifying tragedies to have ever happened to humanity. The Plague was ferocious and had such a gruesome where people would die in such a morbid fashion that today we are obsessed with this subject. Europe was struck in 1328 and lasted until 1358; of course outbreaks would happen every once in a while. The Black Death was able to reach every corner of the world due to the trade routes that were travelled at that time. Although, the Britain was only affected for three years, it wreaked havoc everywhere. It took no prisoners it didn’t matter if you were young, old, poor, rich or a slave or a slave owner. Once infected one wouldn’t have much time left.

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Red crosses were often painted on doors to let anybody who may pass by to be wary of the plague for those with the crosses had been stricken by the plague. Each night, people would collect the bodies that had fallen to Black Death and disposed of the bodies in mass graves. They would often burn and do as much as they possibly could to prevent further outbreak of the disease.

The symptoms would include the usual signs of sickness- fever, vomiting muscular pain and swelling in the lymph nodes. Nobody, physician or doctor knew how the Black Death was occurring or how to stop it. They did all they could to help with the symptoms. In fact, the song Ring around the Rosy was inspired due to the plague. At first, the plague was thought to be sent by the almighty God to punish men for their sins. Simone Buonacorsi, the notary, wrote a ordinances that in no way shall man have contact with those whom are

He went to such extremes such as fines and multiple other penalties. As for taking care of those who were infected and resulted in death he took great precautions. Firstly, he would make sure the funerals were away from family, church and in general the public. In items six and seven he states that nobody shall be present or send a gift before or after death to the place where one was buried. Essentially, there is no mourning for those who pass because, if you did you would be charged a penalty of twenty-five pounds. However, the smaller family members would be exempted from this penalty. Those who were dressed with new clothes in mourning were to face a penalty as well. They had to dress in the same clothes for seven days. However, the wives of the dead were exempted from it. If they chose to dress in new clothes they were not