Renaissance Culture

Introduction

Human history has been full of experiences, problems and issues. Black Death was such an issue in the Renaissance period. It was one of the most pandemics in the human history. It was at its peak in the period between 1348 and 1350. Black Death is associated with the plague theory, which states the outbreak of Yersinia Pestis. In this paper, we will discuss how this issue evolved and how it affected mankind. This paper will discuss the detailed analysis about Black Death (Biberstein EL, Holzworth J. Bacterial diseases, p. 294, 660).

Discussion

The Black Death plague pandemic dominated Europe in the fourteenth century and caused death of about one-third of its inhabitants.

Europe before the outbreak of epidemics

In medieval Europe, from about the eleventh century, the development of cities, increased the importance of the bourgeoisie, but the economy was still based on agriculture. With the increase in population, the demand for food was also growing; the rather primitive medieval agriculture was not able to meet the demands, despite the introduction of new methods of cultivation.

The spread of the plague

Plague reached Europe from Asia, where, together with merchants' caravans spread for about twenty years, reaching from Mongolia to China, then in the Middle East, where it came to Sicily, Italian and Portuguese traders in October 1347. The source of the plague was the rats, and parasite on them, fleas and lice that have spread disease to humans.

Plague reached Europe from Asia, where, together with merchants' caravans spread for about twenty years, reaching from Mongolia to China, then in the Middle East, where it came to Sicily, Italian and Portuguese traders in October 1347. The source of the plague was the rats, and parasite on them, fleas and lice that have spread disease to humans (Bin Saeed AA, Al-Hamdan NA, pp. 1456-1457).

The epidemic progressed very fast, especially in urban areas, densely populated and characterized by the disastrous hygienic conditions. The first wave of Black Death (1347 - 1348) invaded southern Spain, central France, Italia, and much of the Balkans. In 1349, the plague spread to the areas of Central Europe, and then came to London. Few areas remained free from plague or there were few cases of infection: the Pyrenees, as an area of high altitude and sparsely populated, largely rural areas of eastern and southern Polish, Lithuania and northern areas of the Czech Republic. The epidemic ended around the year 1352, but the plague returned to Europe many times.

Europe in the Time of Cholera

Cholera gave the impression of the scale of divine punishment or unknown enemy action or mysterious forces. As usual, if inexplicable, death threats, the blame for their occurrence burdened with outstanding individuals from society, strange: prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and Jews. The latter commonly accused of poisoning wells, which supposedly would be the cause of spread of infection. During this period, there have been many pogroms of Jews, among others in Switzerland, Germany (Cologne, Freiburg), and Spain. There were also ...