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Bubonic Plague and the Crusades
Two Events that Shaped the Middle
Age in Europe
What is the Black Death?
• An infectious disease
• Caused by a bacteria
• Spread by infested
fleas and rats
• Killed millions in
Europe during the
Middle Ages
• Treatable with
antibiotics today
Death Toll
• 1347- 1352 -Killed 5- 35% of total
European population
• 1563-1636- Killed 10-30%
• 1630- Killed 35- 69% Italian Version
• 1709-1713- Killed 30- 49%
• Estimated Total Deaths- 137 Million ! ! !
They did not have CNN Live
24/7 but at least they had art!
• Artistic Interpretation of the Black Death
Effects of Plague
• Depopulation
• Interruption of feudal
system- less peasants
• Groups persecuted
(Jews, lepers, people
with acne) scapegoats
Effects of Plague- Continued
• Skepticism towards
religion
• Culture became very
morbid and
pessimistic
• Lots of death reflected
in art
The End…