Plague In The Middle Ages
With the Catholic Church having the highest amount of followers and believers, the people of Europe believed it was a message from God because it gave the people more of reassurance as to the start of the plague.
During the Medieval Ages, the people of Europe were oblivious as how it a plague could’ve started. Sure there were doctors and nurses but none knew how to cure the disease completely. The notion of the plague being an act of God comes from the Book of Revelation dealing with the Four Horsemen **5. One of the Four Horsemen, famine and disease, was said to have directly affected the economy of this society, making food more vulnerable to gain. The plague became an act of terror and confusion in which caused the people to turn to the
Catholic Church. It was easier for the people to know that God caused this and that they have done him wrong than not knowing how it started. So is it wrong to say that God caused this outbreak of the plague? To a certain extent, we have to realize that it was a common understanding amongst the people of this time to have and may not seem reasonable in modern times. It is understandable that it did could’ve possibly been an act of God because it was a plague that to the people was a huge mystery. The Catholic Church became such an important figure of the people of Europe especially in places like Italy who had strong believers. More and more people would go to ask the priests what was the reason for this but not even they would know. As more and more deaths were happening, people believed that the only way to bury people and save them from the plague was to lay their bodies near the church. The following is an encounter from a witness, Marco di Coppe Stefani 8:
During the Medieval Ages, the people of Europe were oblivious as how it a plague could’ve started. Sure there were doctors and nurses but none knew how to cure the disease completely. The notion of the plague being an act of God comes from the Book of Revelation dealing with the Four Horsemen **5. One of the Four Horsemen, famine and disease, was said to have directly affected the economy of this society, making food more vulnerable to gain. The plague became an act of terror and confusion in which caused the people to turn to the
Catholic Church. It was easier for the people to know that God caused this and that they have done him wrong than not knowing how it started. So is it wrong to say that God caused this outbreak of the plague? To a certain extent, we have to realize that it was a common understanding amongst the people of this time to have and may not seem reasonable in modern times. It is understandable that it did could’ve possibly been an act of God because it was a plague that to the people was a huge mystery. The Catholic Church became such an important figure of the people of Europe especially in places like Italy who had strong believers. More and more people would go to ask the priests what was the reason for this but not even they would know. As more and more deaths were happening, people believed that the only way to bury people and save them from the plague was to lay their bodies near the church. The following is an encounter from a witness, Marco di Coppe Stefani 8: