Black plague changes in Western Europe
Introduction.
The bubonic plague totally changed to Europe. One of the most influential events of the fourteenth century. People thought about divine punishment, therefore all their conspiracy theories about the origin of black death came from there. It is currently known where it comes from, at that time they did not have what they need to identify it. There were those who did not care about the fact that there were all kinds of theories about this disease and only scored the events that were going to the people who suffered from it.
We have as an example in oil made by Pieter Brueghel the old man nicknamed like this; History National Geographic, Antoni Virgili: This Oil of Pieter Brueghel the old man is testimony of the deep footprint that epidemics and wars left in the conscience of Europeans. It looks like civil wars and plague left a deep hole in European civilization whether from the West or Eastern, developed a change in all areas is social, moral or religious.
Developing.
The religious era was guided by two parts: Christianity and with the fragmentation of Western Rome emerges Islam, which attributed the plague as a divine punishment carried by Allah. Islam arises in east of Europe; The importance of sects is the architectural development that began to be carried out as an attribute to the omnipotence of its God. This means that while the disease crashed stronger and stronger, in other parts such as Eastern, these events arise.
There is also the development of the printing press as a communication measure between countries; The reason for this creation was to communicate any problem, to inform the situation in which it was. A type of writing had already been created in Central Asia by means of the year 1008 to 1009; The one that arises in that fourteenth to fifteenth century is the modern printing press.
On the other hand, Christianity made a holy war with the bubonic plague to end her or that she ends with humans. Religion was the one that had the maximum power. People seeing that there was no result, it is when two new stages began to distrust and start. The first stage is the change of mentality of people, and the second in society.
Human beings began to have two ways of thinking by not having the divine help they needed. The first was that they did not want to die and settled far in Campos where a new life began with the survivors that were left, so they are very far from the religious. They ran with the danger that barbarians steal, kill and violate them in that site, since it was on the outskirts of the safe of civilization. Other people had the mentality that was the end of the world.
The latter dedicated themselves to sitting on the ground to die and spend their last days full of pain and suffering, dying little by little. Dragging people who were innocent, there is and present a testimony from History Channel, in their documentary called the black plague; He talks about how citizens who were in a town where they were going to die despite not being infected yet, they buried a child alive because his mother died from the plague and they presented collective hysteria.
In the fourteenth century, animals were judged as persons by acts as murders. There is a report of a testimony that gives as an example how they were so bad at that time. In the year 1456 a pig was judged and executed for having murder of a 5 -year -old boy Jean Martín. This act carried out in the central square of France. The following appointment represents another testimony of a court accusing a living being as guilty.
After hearing the accusation, defense and witnesses, the court decreed that the harmful beasts known under the name of field mice will be conjured to leave the fields and meadows of the Stilfs commune within fourteen days , and that every attempt to return is prohibited eternally; But that if any of the animals were pregnant or prevented from traveling due to their extreme youth, other fourteen days will be granted, under the protection of the court, which are in a position to travel, they must leave within the first fourteen days.
Society despite the development of the modern printing press, was in chaos. As stated in the previous testimony, people began to perform madness of such magnitude that they are not justified. The economy was on the ground because the trade was the cause of the propagation and everything was closed.
Any ship that came from another place was attacked with a multitude of arrows lit on fire. The monarchy that ended the fall of the Western Roman Empire, caused that there was no political figure other than the Church as religion, manors who were losing power of their territories that were devastated. The resurgence of the peasants instead produced the beginning of capitalism. However, there was no one to sell that merchandise more than among the producers themselves.
Medicine was still at its lowest and progress cycle. They had hospitals in Europe, but they were all put by charity of the people themselves in cities. The basic concept that the human being was composed of four main substances: mucus, green blood that refers to bile, blood and phlegm.
Astronomers said it was the fact that planets joined by the earth and are aligned. With another instead it was a divine punishment simply that it was for the unworthy. But always guided towards the supernatural. Sangria technique is developed to treat bubonic plague, work with ointment or elixires methods that help lower the swelling of ganglia or suppuration; having to remove them later so that it does not inflate anymore a disgusting and foul smell, so they had the name of this black plague disease.
The doctors who really did not know anything about the field of medicine appeared, they were in charge of moving the dead bodies and visiting homes to see if one of the members suffered the disease. The people who work on this took advantage of the people who were desperate and charged them an amount of excessive money or sale of a valuable object for a recipe that was supposedly the cure, but it was not really. The quarantine was part of the measure of isolating the ships that reached the ports and wanted to see if after 40 days people were healthy, without any symptoms.
conclusion
With this investigation it is concluded that people went crazy when it is not able to reason. For example, about some atrocious acts that they carried out as the examples that were cited. Now, to answer the question raised, to what extent do the black plague influence the moral of people in the fourteenth century in Western Europe? We can say that it influenced all areas: social, religious, moral, artistic such as the paintings they made to show the suffering that was lived, politician with the closure of ports, the religious as the emergence and expansion of Islam; The creation of the modern printing also.
Also the fact that hygiene and health changed completely. Sewers were created for garbage, the floors were paved as an example of the Islamic architectures that used the material to build their temples. They started bathing and not wearing the same clothes forever, to wash their hands.
A difficulty that was presented in this investigation was the fact that there was so much information that many had to be sought; To see which ones presented the same arguments or similar, and thus confirm them by comparing data. Another point is that, an issue that was not covered in the inquiry is about how it suffered the eastern part of Europe, and there was not much talk about the barbarian villages that resided throughout Europe.
But it is proven that if there was a drastic change in the thought of the Western European human being; He developed an impulse towards rural areas, since the lands of the manors were uninhabited for farmers. So many deaths from people who lived dark moments and judged people regardless of whether or not, that action was unjustified and is not repaired with the fact that there has been an impulse in these segments presented, it will remain as a scar in the books of history.
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