examines how the bubonic plague‚ or Black Death‚ affected Europe in the fourteenth century. Cantor recounts specific events in the time leading up to the plague‚ during the plague‚ and in the aftermath of the plague. He wrote the book to relate the experiences of victims and survivors and to illustrate the impact that the plague had on the government‚ families‚ religion‚ the social structure‚ and art. To illustrate some of the political upheaval due to the Black Death‚ a good example Cantor uses is
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Maus and the Psychological Effects of the Holocaust The Maus books are award-winning comics written by Art Spiegelman. They are the non-fictional stories of Art and his father‚ Vladek. In the book‚ Art Spiegelman is a writer‚ planning to portray Vladek’s life as a Jewish man during WWII Europe in comic book form. While Art gathers information for his story through visits to his father’s house‚ much is learned about their relationship and individual personalities. Through this analysis‚ Maus becomes
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fight to stay alive. You’re thinking why is this happening to me? That is how the victims of the Black Death felt. In five short years‚ the plague killed between 25 and 45% of the populations it encountered. So how different were the Christian and Muslim responses? In 1348 Christians who were followers of Jesus Christ and Muslims who followed the teachings of Muhammad came face to face with the Black Death. In truth‚ Muslims and Christians responded in many different ways. Even the way the blamed others
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The Black Death started in 1347 and raged on for some years‚ wiping most of Europe as it spread. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) wrote of the plague’s symptoms: swellings or tumors in the armpits and groin‚ which led to blackness on different parts of the body. There’s no doubt that the Europeans had their own opinion on the cause of the plague and how to contain it. The Black Death was a plague that very unfamiliar to the victims. As a result‚ they had different beliefs on the cause of the plague;
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Black Death was a deadly disease known through Europe in 1347. Black Death was a disease that consist of multiple diseases such as Bubonic‚ Septicemic‚ and Pneumonic plague. These had the symptoms of abdominal pain‚ bleeding from mouth‚ organ failure‚ and difficulty of breathing. The Pneumonic plague could cause death before any of these symptom though. People living in Europe at the time were terrified of the disease that they would leave villages empty if there was any sign of sickness. In Europe
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The Black Death The Black Death was an especially a traumatic event because of the origin‚ prevalence of unsanitary conditions to the number of the deaths‚ and the remorseless treatment of citizens by others. Only devastating memories are left from the lack of cleanliness to the high death rates of The Black Death. It was first heard of in Central Asia in 1338-39. Scholars have yet not agreed where exactly in Asia the plague originated from‚ research and further investigation
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The Black Death The middle ages were a dark and scary time. They had everything broken down into groups of people. This system was called feudalism. The stages were broken into peasants next squire‚ knights‚ then onto kings. During this time something horrible happened‚ the black death occurred. The black death happened in the 1300s. The Black Death killed an extraordinary 25 million people in 2 years!!! This happened in Europe. According to the article Black Death‚ in ten years‚ it killed
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The black death first came to Messina in Italy in 1347 when a few Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port. People gathered at the port to greet the travelers‚ but they were met with an unfortunate surprise. Most of the fleet’s ship’s crew was dead‚ however‚ the people who were alive were seriously ill and eventually died. The most unusual thing of all‚ they were covered in huge black boils. The disease spread throughout Europe and killed nearly one third of Europe’s population over the
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"What were the social‚ economic‚ political‚ and cultural effects of the black death on Europe." According to the article‚ there is usually a twenty-three-day cycle for victim to die from the introduction of plague contagion among rats in a human community‚ and since the number of fugitives from the plague-striken areas multiplies the speed‚ the disease spread rapidly by a process called as "spread by leaps". Moreover‚ since the medieval society was in a dynamic phase of "modernization heralding
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