https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4 By Breah Milford en-us 2016-08-31 01:36:35 UTC 2023-10-02 09:10:58 UTC hello@padlet.com milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120728832 The Black Plague killed about a third of the Medieval population at the time. Due to the limited medical knowledge of the time and the fact that the society had no clue how to help cure the Plague. So they tried to cure it using techniques that didn't help at all, usually resulting in the death of the patient. This, as well as the general deadliness of the plague, resulted in many people dying in this society. There were so many people that died that they even ran out of consecrated ground to bury them in. Eventually, they ended up digging mass graves where they would throw all all of the dead people in and cover them with a thin layer of dirt so that they wouldn't be exposed. Overall we are not sure exactly how many people died but we know it was more than a third of the population at the time.]]> 2016-08-31 01:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120728832 milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120729441 When the plague first appeared in Medieval Society, people were scared and would use anything to try and protect themselves form it. People thought that the plague was caused by bad air so they would carry around aromatic herbs to try and combat the 'bad air'. They would also cover their houses and possessions with nice smelling things like pleasant smelling plants and flowers, vinegar, rosewater and other sweet concoctions. The other reason tha people thought that the plague came to them was because it was God's way of punishing them for their sins so the main form of prevention was to pray. There was one prevention that actually worked though, the Pope sat between two large fires to stop the plague from getting to him. This actually worked because the fleas that carries the plague couldn't get through the fire to get to him.

Once people got the plague though, they were almost certainly doomed as the medical knowledge in this time was limited and their treatment usually did do the patient any good or made them worse. The Church had hospitals open to help the sick but all they could really provide was that the patient was well fed and cared for and couldn't treat them. The treatment that was provided though, often made the patient worse. The medieval methods included bleeding the patient to release the toxins from their body; lancing the boils and buboes and then covering them with a substance to draw out the poison.]]> 2016-08-31 01:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120729441 milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120729503 The plague changed Medieval Society greatly, in both good ways and bad. It devastated communities but made life better for those who survived. The plague caused many casualties and left many families devastated. In some families it killed the children and the parents had to bury them or the parents died and children were left orphans. In some towns almost everyone died and in others almost no one did. The impact changed depending on where you where. 

But after the plague, society changed for the better. The Church's hold over society lessened because people didn't want to worship a God that had let their whole family die and wages were increased for the serfs and villeins who worked on the fields. As there were less people in the society because lots of people died, these people demanded they be paid more to work for the upper classes and the upper classes agreed because they knew that if they didn't the workers would find someone else to work where they were treated better.]]> 2016-08-31 01:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120729503 milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120729539 When the Black Death first came about there were many stories and theories about where it came from. In this time people were very religious and though that God controlled everything so the main idea surrounding where the Black Death came from was that God had sent it to punish the wicked. People also thought that it was caused by a 'poisonous miasma' or bad air which, if you breathed, would give you the plague. There were also stories that simply looking into the eyes of someone with the plague would give it to you. People were so clueless about what was going on and were so desperate for a cure TShe they bought anything that people claimed would fix it. So physicians sold remedies based on absurd reasoning like the weather or the alignment of the planets. Eventually it got to a point that people were so scared if getting sick that they ran away from people and places with the plague.]]> 2016-08-31 01:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120729539 milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120730680 Pearson History iBook

All Fall Down by Sally Nicholls

http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever

http://blackplague101.weebly.com/interesting-facts.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9H9ID_qJgE

http://www.history.com/topics/black-death

http://www.historyextra.com/feature/your-60-second-guide-facts-black-death-how-when-why

]]> 2016-08-31 01:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120730680 milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120999878 There were three types of plague: Bubonic, Pneumonic, and Septacaemic. The most common type was Bubonic where a flea with the bacteria bit a person it would inject the bacteria and forms a buboe in the area where they were bitten. This is usually in the armpits, neck and groin. These could be from the size of an egg to an apple. The starting symptoms were much like those of a cold but increased to headaches, nausea, aching joints, fever and vomiting. These usually took between 1 and 7 days to appear after the victim was bitten and between 30% to 70% of people died who got it.

The second type was pneumonic plague, which was caused by airborne bits of saliva from other plague victims and was the most contagious type. This type of plague affected the respiratory system and caused the victim to cough up blood. The symptoms were that they had infected lungs, coughed up blood mucus and saliva, and these took from 1 to 7 days to appear. Around 90% to 95% of people who got it died.

Septacaemic plague was a rare form but was deadly, killing everyone who contracted it. You got it through a direct flea bite and it turned the skin the shades of black and blue. The symptoms included  a high  fever and the skin turning purple/black. This type was quick and deadly, killing the victims on the same day they contracted it]]> 2016-09-01 03:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/120999878 milforbr https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/121001100 In the 1310s, technology advanced throughout Europe, and more trade routes opened up between Europe and Asia. This meant that they were able to travel to new places and this is what allowed the Black Death the travel so quickly. It started in the 1340s in China, India, Persia, Syria and Egypt. It then travelled to Europe in 1347 when ships from Asia arrived in Sicily. In that year it travelled from Sicily to France, Sardinia, Corsica and Genoa. Then to Italy, France, Spain, Ireland and England in 1348. In the next year the death toll had reached 15 million and continued on for another 4 years through the rest of Europe.]]> 2016-09-01 03:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/milforbr/91hlf83bulb4/wish/121001100