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In this picture it show a primary source of the Black Death, as it is remains of bones from the mass burial during the Black Death. The mass burials were commonly done in England because when people bought the bodies to the churches there was not enough space to give them each a grave. When grave were full they forced to dug huge holes where they buried hundreds of bodies. There was one layer of body into a hole and a bit of dirt and it continued on until it was full.

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In this picture it show a primary source of the Black Death, as it is remains of bones from the mass burial during the Black Death. The mass burials were commonly done in England because when people bought the bodies to the churches there was not enough space to give them each a grave. When grave were full they forced to dug huge holes where they buried hundreds of bodies. There was one layer of body into a hole and a bit of dirt and it continued on until it was full.

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Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies
A Pocket full of Posies
"A-tishoo! A-tishoo!"
We all fall Down!

Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies is a children's rhyme as a game but it actually represents what happened during the Black Death. One of the symptoms was a rosy red rash in the shape of a ring on the skin (Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies.) Many people had pockets filled with sweet smelling herbs which were carried due to the disease because of the bad smells (A Pocket full of Posies.) "A-tishoo! A-tishoo!" is portraying one of the symptoms of the Black Death which was intensive sneezing, which helped spread some forms of the plague. Then "We all fall Down!" is when people fall down because they get the plague and die. This rhyme is showing the grave impact on society because even nursery rhymes were about the Black Death.

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Many people believed that the cause of the Black Death were the Jews. The picture below depicts the Christians burning the Jews, as punishment for the Black Death. There was already significant prejudice against the Jews because they believe that they poisoned the wells, ritual murder and other false accusations. In 1349 over 2,000 Jews were killed by the Christians. They blame Jews for any problem, the Jews also died in the Black Death as well as Christians but less as they hade rituals to wash, clean as they had more hygienic.

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When the plague hit Europe in 1348 it killed 20-25 million people, about a third of Europe's population. For a Christian population who had already accused Jews of poisoning wells, it was natural to assume they also brought the Black Death plague.

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"One citizen avoided another, hardly any neighbour troubled about others, relatives never or hardly ever visited each other. Moreover, such terror was struck into the hearts of men and women by this calamity, that brother abandoned brother, and the uncle his nephew, and the sister her brother, and very often the wife her husband. What is even worse and nearly incredible is that fathers and mothers refused to see and tend their children, as if they had not been theirs."

In this Source explains how people reacted to the black death, as none left their homes, they didn't visit anyone, they abandoned their family or even kicked them out, they turned on one another. Some people neglected their own children from entering. The Black Death caused terror throughout Europe and this had a serious impact on society at the time, as all social interaction was at a stand still whilst people tried to avoid eachother  to survive the plague. This meant that social development was paused and culture could not develop. The Black Death created a very different way of life in regards to social interaction and family dynamics, with the plague tearing families apart.

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Preventions and treatment on the black death 

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Preventions and treatment on the black death 

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They believed that Bleeding would get the poison out of the body but it killed the person quicker as to cut the Lancing the buboes, if some one bathed in vinegar and rose water it would leave the body. People believed in witchcraft that to place a hen next to the swelling and it would be cured. Sanitation was a prevention that everyone and everything needed to be cleaned (they had the right idea but they needed to do it better)  and also a diet where you couldn't eat anything that smelled such as meats. The time of the bleak Death people were not very smart and simple and basic things couldn't cure them, as much as they tried the plague wouldn't leave the body.

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Citation: C N Trueman "Cures for the Black Death"
historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 5 Mar 2015. 20 Apr 2018.

The Black Death wreaked havoc throughout Medieval England. The Black Death killed one in three people and was to have a direct link to the Peasants Revolt of 1381. 'Cures' for the Black Death went from the absurd to having a degree of common sense about them. Regardless of this, the casualty figures for the Black Death were massive.

Vinegar and water treatment If a person gets the disease, they must be put to bed. They should be washed with vinegar and rose water

Lancing the buboes
The swellings associated with the Black Death should be cut open to allow the disease to leave the body. A mixture of tree resin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement should be applied to the places where the body has been cut open.

The disease must be in the blood. The veins leading to the heart should be cut open. This will allow the disease to leave the body. An ointment made of clay and violets should be applied to the place where the cuts have been made.

Diet
We should not eat food that goes off easily and smells badly such as meat, cheese and fish. Instead we should eat bread, fruit and vegetables

The streets should be cleaned of all human and animal waste. It should be taken by a cart to a field outside of the village and burnt. All bodies should be buried in deep pits outside of the village and their clothes should also be burnt.

Roast the shells of newly laid eggs. Ground the roasted shells into a powder. Chop up the leaves and petals of marigold flowers. Put the egg shells and marigolds into a pot of good ale. Add treacle and warm over a fire. The patient should drink this mixture every morning and night.

Witchcraft Place a live hen next to the swelling to draw out the pestilence from the body. To aid recovery you should drink a glass of your own urine twice a day.

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Cures for the Black Death - History Learning Site

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The Black Death wreaked havoc throughout Medieval England. The Black Death killed one in three people and was to have a direct link to the Peasants Revolt of 1381. 'Cures' for the Black Death went from the absurd to having a degree of common sense about them.