The Plague During The Spanish Inquisition
Germany The Spanish king Ferdinand and his queen Isabella tried at first to protect the Jewish families from the inquisitions due to their economical contribution, considering they were the continents money leaders. However, that immunity could not maintain for long, as the church had swayed the commoners that the plague was because of their sins and that of the non-Catholics. Moreover, Jewish families were forced to confess their alleged involvement in the outbreak or face execution. To escape the inquisitions, many Jews converted to Christianity and maintained their true faith concealed, or rather take their own lives. The Spanish inquisitions denied practicing or converted Jews from leaving the cities they were residing, fearing they would spread the plague further throughout the country. Given that the method of plague transmission was oblivious to anyone, and continued to blowout across the continent, whilst having remedies projected by medical and religious figures. The endorsement of the Inquisition’s actions by the Spanish monarchy during the plague years may have resulted in an increase in oppression of non-Catholics by the Inquisition later on.
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Fifty-thousands of non-Catholics were killed by the inquisitions and in the name of the Catholic Church during the black plague; those who survived fled their country, converted to Christianity, or committed suicide.
As small attacks of plague continued to erupt across Europe, anti-Semitism grew, and by 1391 the Jewish people were banished from Spain all together. Those who remained in hiding were oppressed and killed for their beliefs throughout the early 19th century when the Inquisition was finally undone by the French. Although the Spanish Inquisition did not begin with the Black Death, the plague may have increased the Inquisition’s fury by spreading fear against non- Christians all over
Europe.
The spread of black death in Italy
The Black Death was a major disaster in European history. It began from its arrival in Italy in late 1347. The specific plague of the fourteenth century stirred very speedily from ships toward villages toward cities and countries that it could cause panic and fear by the whisper of its nearness. Venice it is located in Northern Italy, it is a harbor city. The plague arrived to Venice because there is a strong link between port cities and the plague. The plague would have not been spread so widely, if it had not been able to travel from harbor to harbor with the fleas and rats on merchant ships. The Black Death was spread so easily because the Italian cities were too successful as sea traders. Sadly in 18000 lives in Venice were lost in 17 months, and 595 died on the 9th of November. These massive fatalities had a great affect on the city. Even Nicolo Contarini the doge passed away leaving Francesco Erizzo the new doge to rule his place. The disease started to move from Genoa toward Pisa, and it started to spread with frightening and dreadful speed toward Tuscany to Florence, Roma and Siena, also the disease arrived on shore from Messina toward southern Italy, but most of the territory of Calabria was rustic, and it moved slower northward. When the plague reached Milan, the residents of the houses it first hit were fortified and whether they’re sick or not they were neglected and they were left to die. This awfully tough measure that were ordered by the Italian Archbishop Givanni Visconti, seemed to be successful to some extent, with regard to Milan it suffered fewer or less from the disease than any other large city in Italy. As for Florence, the flourishing, rich and wealthy center of culture and trade was essentially most affected by the plague that reached it by the middle of 1348, by some rating it lost as much as 65,000 occupants that may be about 60% of its population. In Florence, for depiction of the tragedies, there are eyewitness tales of two famous occupants, first one is an Italian writer who lived in Florence, Italy his name is Giovanni Boccaccio, he lived through the plague when it despoiled Florence in 1348, and his famous work is, The Decameron, This experience motivated him to write about 3 women and 7 men who abandoned their family and friends, and evaded the disease by escaping outside the city, Boccaccio gave in his introduction a description of the effects of the plague on his city. The second one’s name is Petrarch, who lost his beloved girl Laura De Noves “whom he had met in his youth in Avignon and to whom he wrote his famous love poems” to this horrible disease in France. As for Siena, the plague interrupted the work on a cathedral and caused the death of many workers, and others were too ill to continue working on this project, to deal with the health emergency and crisis, money for the project was diverted to help those who were ill. There was no money or funds for the project “church-building” after the plague was over, however Siena could not recover after the plague killed a huge part of its urban residents; moreover, the lack of labor, funds and craftsmen made it out of the question to pick up the work after the plague was over.
Black plague in Egypt
Panagiotakopulu was a scientist who came to Egypt to look for and examine fossil insect that had existed for over 3000 years ago. She is the one who noticed that Black plague appeared in ancient Egypt by accident. Panagiotakopulu combed tworker’s village position in Amarna, where the builders of the graves Egyptians kings Tutankhanamun and Ankhnaton used to live in. the researcher revealed cat and human fleas in and all around the houses of the workers. This stimulated panagiotakopulu to trust that the bubonic plague’s fleaborne bacteria would also have been hiding in areas. However, she went too in search for other ways and clues. Preceding in digging around the Nile data turned up to Nile rats. The plague’s main employee of the post office flea is local to the Nile valley and also known to be a rat parasite. The Nile had a perfect spot so it could carry the plague into civil communities. People began to build cities around the Nile River in 3500 B.C... The habitat of the Nile rat was disorganized during floods and its bacterial hitchhikers reached the human domain. In 1500 B.C. the Ebers papyrus which is a medical text that is identify as a disease that produced a bubo and the purulence turned into solid, so the disease became hit. According to Panagiotakopulu, the Black Death was spread after the rats were infected and then came in contact with humans. She also suspected that human contact through sea trade was another factor that contributed to the spread of this deadly disease. On a more specific level of depth into the factors causing the spread of this disease, Panagiotakopulu concluded that crew ship members of trade between India and Egypt contracted the disease from infected rats living on trade ships.
Fifty-thousands of non-Catholics were killed by the inquisitions and in the name of the Catholic Church during the black plague; those who survived fled their country, converted to Christianity, or committed suicide.
As small attacks of plague continued to erupt across Europe, anti-Semitism grew, and by 1391 the Jewish people were banished from Spain all together. Those who remained in hiding were oppressed and killed for their beliefs throughout the early 19th century when the Inquisition was finally undone by the French. Although the Spanish Inquisition did not begin with the Black Death, the plague may have increased the Inquisition’s fury by spreading fear against non- Christians all over
Europe.
The spread of black death in Italy
The Black Death was a major disaster in European history. It began from its arrival in Italy in late 1347. The specific plague of the fourteenth century stirred very speedily from ships toward villages toward cities and countries that it could cause panic and fear by the whisper of its nearness. Venice it is located in Northern Italy, it is a harbor city. The plague arrived to Venice because there is a strong link between port cities and the plague. The plague would have not been spread so widely, if it had not been able to travel from harbor to harbor with the fleas and rats on merchant ships. The Black Death was spread so easily because the Italian cities were too successful as sea traders. Sadly in 18000 lives in Venice were lost in 17 months, and 595 died on the 9th of November. These massive fatalities had a great affect on the city. Even Nicolo Contarini the doge passed away leaving Francesco Erizzo the new doge to rule his place. The disease started to move from Genoa toward Pisa, and it started to spread with frightening and dreadful speed toward Tuscany to Florence, Roma and Siena, also the disease arrived on shore from Messina toward southern Italy, but most of the territory of Calabria was rustic, and it moved slower northward. When the plague reached Milan, the residents of the houses it first hit were fortified and whether they’re sick or not they were neglected and they were left to die. This awfully tough measure that were ordered by the Italian Archbishop Givanni Visconti, seemed to be successful to some extent, with regard to Milan it suffered fewer or less from the disease than any other large city in Italy. As for Florence, the flourishing, rich and wealthy center of culture and trade was essentially most affected by the plague that reached it by the middle of 1348, by some rating it lost as much as 65,000 occupants that may be about 60% of its population. In Florence, for depiction of the tragedies, there are eyewitness tales of two famous occupants, first one is an Italian writer who lived in Florence, Italy his name is Giovanni Boccaccio, he lived through the plague when it despoiled Florence in 1348, and his famous work is, The Decameron, This experience motivated him to write about 3 women and 7 men who abandoned their family and friends, and evaded the disease by escaping outside the city, Boccaccio gave in his introduction a description of the effects of the plague on his city. The second one’s name is Petrarch, who lost his beloved girl Laura De Noves “whom he had met in his youth in Avignon and to whom he wrote his famous love poems” to this horrible disease in France. As for Siena, the plague interrupted the work on a cathedral and caused the death of many workers, and others were too ill to continue working on this project, to deal with the health emergency and crisis, money for the project was diverted to help those who were ill. There was no money or funds for the project “church-building” after the plague was over, however Siena could not recover after the plague killed a huge part of its urban residents; moreover, the lack of labor, funds and craftsmen made it out of the question to pick up the work after the plague was over.
Black plague in Egypt
Panagiotakopulu was a scientist who came to Egypt to look for and examine fossil insect that had existed for over 3000 years ago. She is the one who noticed that Black plague appeared in ancient Egypt by accident. Panagiotakopulu combed tworker’s village position in Amarna, where the builders of the graves Egyptians kings Tutankhanamun and Ankhnaton used to live in. the researcher revealed cat and human fleas in and all around the houses of the workers. This stimulated panagiotakopulu to trust that the bubonic plague’s fleaborne bacteria would also have been hiding in areas. However, she went too in search for other ways and clues. Preceding in digging around the Nile data turned up to Nile rats. The plague’s main employee of the post office flea is local to the Nile valley and also known to be a rat parasite. The Nile had a perfect spot so it could carry the plague into civil communities. People began to build cities around the Nile River in 3500 B.C... The habitat of the Nile rat was disorganized during floods and its bacterial hitchhikers reached the human domain. In 1500 B.C. the Ebers papyrus which is a medical text that is identify as a disease that produced a bubo and the purulence turned into solid, so the disease became hit. According to Panagiotakopulu, the Black Death was spread after the rats were infected and then came in contact with humans. She also suspected that human contact through sea trade was another factor that contributed to the spread of this deadly disease. On a more specific level of depth into the factors causing the spread of this disease, Panagiotakopulu concluded that crew ship members of trade between India and Egypt contracted the disease from infected rats living on trade ships.