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listen everybody and I will set tears pouring from your eyes no one will rest poisoned arrows will strike everyone teva's Pro down the proud and incurable disease will strike like lightning for the almighty is set I shall wipe my to my created off the face of the Earth for three horrifying years between 1348 and 1350 the Black Death pushed medieval man to the brink of an apocalypse  the living expected only death everywhere graveyards were choked with corpses in the scale of death persuaded those who lived weeping and lamenting through the pitcher events that the last metcom  it was a world without hope seemingly abandoned by God from Italy to Ireland Europe lost nearly half its population 20 million died in the crisis every part of medieval Society was strained to breaking-point Medicine failed to sync violent a Macabre religious cups appeared on a relative collapsed husband turned on each other and brutal acts of Cruelty no one knew who will follow the Antichrist the end of the world but some survived to Chronicle the despair righteous doctors lawyers priests unique eyewitness four deaths Frontline  Derek strong rewards offers intimate shocking and surprising windows on the West Coast repeat in the whole history of Europe  who despite the trauma the continent was not plunged into a new Dark Age the gradual Reawakening of Europe was in fact seated in the horror and tragedy of the Black Death in the bed 14 Europe was not the Dark Continent so often lampooned by history it was well populated sophisticated mobile people are moving that are traders that are emotions that are pilgrims there are soldiers there are bureaucrats people on every imaginable kind of business on the road moving about the society  nowhere was richer busier with trade call darsh in the ports and cities of Northern Italy Florence with a population of over 1 fast said to resemble a ripe pomegranate against anthill if she would contact merchants and peasants rich and poor a pleasure  the population was tremendous and the cities were big crowded but they were also very well places to live on so attracting lots of people soon as since it's the sort of place that disease is going to love into this medieval Melting Pot in the Autumn of 1347 stole a horrifying industrious disease she was born by Sailors returning from the Black Sea in the East the pestilence so ready in their blood under their breath the first the citizens have no idea of the scale of the horror on the midterm  the disease that later became known a black desk with red every part of medieval Life Society religion feudalism family in the time of piacenza a lawyer Gabriel do Moose's recorded the arrival of the disease 5 bananas to write what every city every settlement every place was poisoned by the contagious pestilence when one person had contracted the illness since his whole family those preparing to bury the dead with seized by death in the same way the death entered Through the Windows cities and towns with devastated the survivors mooned that Dad can Italy with the front line of a bewildering epidemic no one was prepared for the speed and horror of the disease people became sick with a flu like fever began vomiting and their necks armpits and groin pus-filled swellings or buboes of here metal the skin internal hemorrhaging produced purple and black blotches best followed with a new week from ammonia like flooding of the lungs in a matter of three months 20% of your population is just a pile of corpses so being stunned I think is probably the most obvious reaction they as well as being petrified and having no sense of what to do to make it stop lower the word no known cure many doctors try their best Gentilly. Farina was among the position at the University of Perugia he began to realize Unstoppable the disease was this pestilence does a business golden or epidemic or whatever else you wished College is more awful than anything else in before no disease of competitive malignancy has ever been witnessed nevertheless terrified wealthy citizens cross that any hope seeking to buy the way to Medical salvation we made you too particular Quarles is accepting poisonous material is generated from the heart and the lungs my job is physician is not play about the Heavens to concentrate on the symptoms of the sick and to do what I can for the  Gentilly advice go to eat lettuce alginate that sleep on the left and right side so is to keep the heat of the liver study  laying on one's back going to be disasters  astonishingly to those with Advanced symptoms he applied a paste of gum resin the roots of Lily's a dried human excrement  it was a form of using the human body to help itself blood excrement or other waste products which it friend since they were treated by distillation or something like that remind you some magic University Commons remedy that might be effective such treatments were rooted in the medieval past sabotage exception they failed Justice the physician cheerleader Felino failed on the 18th of June 1348 the pestilence added his name to the rule call of death most people realize the disease could not be cured they were left with only the faith in God on the efforts of the when one person is sick in the house no one would come in  even dear friends would hide themselves away weeping position would not visit the priest panic-stricken administer the sacraments with fear and trembling no one what to do religion was no Shield against the disease men who braved the dying to administer the last rites of fell victim themselves  AP a chance at the Black Death through their religious orders more than 60 priests died  fear was compounded by ignorance some believe the disease was transmitted flashlight others that merely thinking about it would bring death Italian Society shrill Jeopardy  the crisis was captured by the pan of Giovanni boccaccio this Florentine writer not step forward as a black Mobile Solutions stocking witness such Terror was struck into the hearts of men and women by This calamity and lets brother abandoned brother the uncle his nephew and the sister her brother and very often the wife her husband  but what was even worse and incredible what's the father's or mother's refuse to CM10 the sick children as if they have not been there  bewilderment side with neither defense not understanding families and friends shunned each other Woman stole a duck the same crew policy which was to avoid and Carly II everything belonging to them  by so doing  he thought he would secure his own people in 1348 ready for the apocalypse was nine designs to was upon them and that seemed to be nothing you could do about nothing like this before on this scale and how to react how to behave they just didn't know  has the ball Society fractured The rhythms of medieval life begun to unravel Harvest sweat uncovered Sly Stone contended  in the city of Siena civil courts were closed and building work on the cathedral haunted  work resumed on the great Nave remains unfinished today does local leaders guide City Livestock the scale of the disaster was becoming clear  in addition to lots of people being ill and dying you know had nothing working properly the bodies weren't removed sanitation to the extent it existed completely collapsed food wasn't being made bread wasn't being baked so you had in addition to disease Shannon and the general problems of keeping some sort of order  and this suffering and misery of our city the authority of human and divine laws bonus disappeared  for like other men the ministers and the executives with the laws that Mosaic will shut up with their families so that no duties were carried out  every man was therefore able to do as he pleased Little World seemingly abandoned by God no one expected to live  MattyB saved as if each day would be done lost  Italian Society was in Morrow Mountain the photo show cure for the presidents what about amusing themselves satisfying every best your appetite to take basement day and night going from Tappan to Taman drinking a moderately but when freely into other people's houses doing as they pleased this they were able to do because many had abandon their homes so that many houses became common property and any stranger who went inside made ship the messes up throughout the spring and summer of 1348 the total of death went on a baited in Venice some 90,000.  In Florence that was half the sea population  such was the multitude of corpses brought to the charges every day and every hour that there was not enough consecrating to give them burial  with a cemeteries full they were fools to dig huge trenches where they bury the bodies by then in Siena near the famous Gothic Cathedral Sims 4 thrown into pets in the foundations of the old city wall  remarkably they're still there today does one chronicler of the time noted on top of the corpses with little Motors does they put layer upon layer just like one puts layers of cheese in a lasagna the fear of contagion fuel the brutal response the city of thority or the houses of the sick to be locked and shuttered  leave victims inside to die everyone know believed that God was punishing the world on the edge of the Abyss the rest of Europe race itself seeking answers could anything stop God's rage but no that's the Black Death swept across Europe the horror of the disease will be rivaled by the horror of man Zone response it's six months the Black Death had taken millions of lives devastated listening now in the spring of 1348 it arrived in southern France it's clear that disease followed the roots of trade across Western Europe which would become by the 14th century a pretty elaborate Network rum largely by aliens and ironically of course it was from Italy that they exported very successfully the disease to other parts of Europe  in the coming months fear of the black death would strike at the heart of the church provoking bizarre rituals of penitence  but was still would trigger ethnic hatred on a horrifying scale  the pestilence quickly spread in land to the pay seat of Avenue  it was here rather than in Rome that Pope Clement VI held Court  Avenue set this time a city drip-fed on religious power patronage on diplomacy it had of course it is the paper called enormous operation of some six or seven hundred people but it was also any figures Crossroads the point where culture politic Theology of science converged the poop was called voice on Earth is cool seized with gossip and rumor Shirley religion would save them in the court musician and philosopher Louie hooligan Ghana unique account of the arrival and impact of the disease  the entire province is infected by these calamities sea fish and I don't know men believing that they have been poisoned by the infected at night is just thought that the whole Coast land of the neighboring countries coffee in fection from the stinking breath of wind which Blue from the region contaminated by the pestilence  day by day more more people die no  my God's will  I just reached us like many devoted heated men hey looking believe the pestilence was a miasmic wind blowing across the continent by Furious dating moral Decay it was brought such divine retribution really big diseases are God's business he punishes Egypt with plagues Heap does the Israelites with plagues and so they will look for forms of pollution that aren't what we think of as pollution sinfulness Morrow Collision  it was surely a time to hold true to one's veins the pope declared the prayer piety and religious possessions where the route to Salvation on survival but they didn't work so many were dying but the pope ordered huge new graveyards to be consecrated to bury the piles of rotting Corpses the even consecrated the road so that bodies could be dumped in the river and I've been only buried 11,000 people in the six weeks I lost 1/3 of the Cardinals and half the population so clearly having your as the central how to Christianity having beans bad what's the Catholic Church failing the devolved some clearly thought so but extra Audrey movement of lay extremists now. they were known as the flatulence and they directly challenged the authority of the church directions to Performance of devout processions with the challenging of litanies men and women alike many Bedford others wearing hash smeared with ashes processed with Lamentations and tears  some people songs with crew whips until the blood the flagellants marched from time to time putting themselves and others into a frenzy of brittle watching one per session was Robert of Amesbury  before Hood painted with red cross front and back sorry to whip with three songs which song had an alternate with something sharp like a needle stuck through the middle as they walked they sang a Christian nickname  one off to the other destruction selves with these woman naked and bloody bodies contemporary observers talk about flatulence turn themselves on the blood spatter in the walls of the surrounding buildings people see when they look at a spectacle light that what they see is Jesus suffering and bleeding for the ascend what more powerful hacked people performed on their behalf to avert this terrible Scourge that is coming to the  the theatrical Drew large crowds hoping for Redemption this sent shock waves through the church the trench didn't like them at all because it was a lame move it was raining much do it yourself Catholicism the last thing it wanted in the middle of the plague outbreak was a large group of nuts marching from how to turn on and they thought they were insane  religion with something the church dispensed through the priesthood through the sacraments as they consider extremely dangerous as well the promise of the flagellants fruit and tea Anjali fill these are Marching wolves would simply have helped to spread the disease more quickly after several months of horror the city of Avenue the religious heart of Europe had become a ghost town reef at least half the people in Avenue died there are now within the walls of the city more than 7,000 houses where no one lives because what in the mess perished live in the suburbs  collage imagine that there is not one Survivor  in a bit stay alive the pope put his own face in a talented young doctor his name was key to Schodack and he became the papal surgeon at Avenue the plague was shameful for the Physicians who could give no help Atul especially as as a field of infection they shrank from visiting the sick not even if they did that she's nothing and no fee the sick died four previous plagues that was some remedies  call this one short story with remarkable  he contracted the disease while standing enter an agonizing 6 weeks treated himself in sizing the pupils his friends had left him for but amazingly he was one of the lucky ones to recover I surely have been worked tirelessly to try and unravel the nature of the disease carrying out cop sees he was able to observe the infected lungs of victims evidence he maintained of God's polluting miasma breathing is in pad men suffer in the lungs and whoever has these corrupted cannot by any means Escape Philippians 2 days  Shirley hexagons give a fascinating glimpse of the Maryville symptoms of the disease printed a modern medicine contacts playing for the Black Death actually was  Siri suggest a lethal hybrid up your bonnet Huarache plague but in truth the disease remains a mystery nevertheless has the most acute medical herbs the age to show the I knew it was spread by human contact accordingly he advised the Pope  fall prevention killer was to flee the area before becoming infected tooth in the blood with bloodletting to strengthen the heart with fruits and good smelling and to purify the air with fire the pope did as he was told isolating himself from court and sevens between two great log fires  heater Kodiak did give the pope advice zoom out on a personal level about keeping himself out of Harm's Way as far as possible keeping people who will had contact with it he's away from the pope and he was lucky enough that none of his papal patients actually cool too  the show Leah triumphed who wrote out the Black Death I survived  but the same was not true for others the world seeking to appease goats free Christian tolerance crumbled as the community began a murderous parch  labor turned on neighbor shaking scapegoats Heretics Outsiders and the Jews if you're convinced that God is angry at you you look around and say what has made God mad they can be few sins worse than denying what you understand to be the true God as the true God Canada mind that's what Jews were doing  the Jews were accused of plots to destroy all Christendom in the spring of 1348 Jews from not born and Carcassonne for dragged from their homes burned at the stake some wretched men were found in possession of certain powders and whether justly or unjustly gold news were accused of poisoning the well the weather resulted anxious men not refuse to drink the waters as some of these men weren't for this accidental being Bunch daily it's being ordered today should be punished us the Brooklyn Chase recorded by the court bailiffs your father is the confession of one of the Jews made on the 8th of October 1348 in the castle Felicia the wife of aequitas the Jew was put to question  so what episode of that she confessed round Midsummer lost the Jew Provencal gave her some poison to put this in the wells to poison the people using them search up the poison and did as she was told  thousands of Jewish families were forced into false confessions it would then to death  kilometers was terrible as it was the plague was not just to disaster for some people it was an opportunist opportunist who sings The Playpen hoping for some time to be able to do now's the chance Sutton Commissioners have been appointed to punish the Jew baiju legal process  you should know that all Jews living in field have now being bent to put it in its most brutally simple it was an opportunity for the many Chris don't see what in that to Jewish moneylenders to liquidate that spot liquidizing netcredit  fun process it was led by the least in very many times the wiping out of the Jewish Community happens before the plague ever arised  in the tree is it the Black Death massacres of Jews to place an over 100 tons of cities in France Italy Switzerland and Germany lay morally derailed the late spring of 1348 the Pope's musician Louie heligan Panda morning to colleagues in northern France  and if you representative selves the best advice is this a man should eat and drink moderately but Above All Makes Little with people is best to stay at home until the epidemic has passed what's a Louie Hale again it was too late in July searching 48 the Black Death claimed as live with Europe Rhythm by pogroms Buy universal crisis of Faith the pestilence no let the channel uninvaded the past rulers of England how would the feudal search pics of centuries Now Fair was the whole of Europe poised on the edge of Anarchy across the continent Hayley half the population was dead England waited proud religious postural feudal once again the Black Death entered from the sea in the summer of 1748 it arrived in the pool what's on Timnath and Bristol it marched across the country where 90% of the people lived on the land did England servile passing sidewalk the largest states for centuries paying rent for the room small Holdings in the coming months the Carnage of the black death would transform the society is surprising ways Century at seen a steady rise in population more than more marginal land was plowed for grain  know the land in the people for Bala precariously on a knife edge before the Black Death life for peasants was pretty hard they were living large numbers of that's a bad subsistence-level many living on very small Holdings scratching existence Ashland  blue Rollin the exposed and vulnerable  Fitness Suffolk Village of roll what's the weather the family called Denny's  Harris motorcyclist any who's married to Catherine they had a young family Mercer University security statements and court records of the time we can give them an authentic voice moving insights into how such a pest wadley's with torn apart by the disease  by May 1349 the Black Death had arrived at their door that's move slowly at first but once the kindling was late The Blaze spread with such intensity look like no one remain  my older brother William was one of the first time I succumb to the persons  Diamond 3DS lullabies wife and transsexual left me his dwelling  set an alarm cuz in the benefits remaining son  is Deathstroke The Village the Tendencies of the deceased passed to the grease survivors no one knew who would be next  like those before them The Peasants believe the disease was born corrupted air  the sweet-smelling herbs like time times and wormwood they tried in vain to purify their homes but only did what's the skies the smell of death  my mother full of my brother to the great very quickly reminder brother dead my mother's 5 Acres of gone to me  Catherine iron out more than  free times wishes we were before this pestilent struck by who knows how long I last  elevators just avoidance I know families in fact I wake up early every morning I tried that the swelling's would up here to my children and overnight been a catastrophic few months wilsham lost several hundred Souls among them the Lord of The Manor leaving his widow lady rules sex to cope with the crisis just took my good husband and killed more than a third of the men women and children in manage such a shortage of Agriculture Neighbors is well endowed with cleanse and possessions Rufus and attendance across the board looks like of the population dying in England  you can look at the clergy because there's evidence for replacing those that died looks like 40 - 50% you can then look at individual Villages you can find some with real Hora gyro about 80% of the population died the hue death toll among laborers paralyzed real life  some Villages were abandoned farmsteads fell into ruin and Fields were left we've always got to remember the preferably grief-stricken condition I must have been in after the black that they all food how much did they spend the United Black Death was carrying people often in the village in the in that time wherever it might be and the next to Denny's these present from me did get that together pretty quickly blonde blind waste he's committed to the Village until another time and can be found how many over the ma I was just left that life bounty how long does change graduate lighting presents the gun to read unforeseen advantages from Jets figure labor in demand for higher wages and cheaper rents before the Black Death labor was plentiful laborers cheap after the Black Death it was very very difficult you simply could get people to come to do the jobs you couldn't get people to cut your colon to stretch it you couldn't find people to repair roof unless you pay two or three or even four times the wages you pay them before  across the land agricultural laborers true cycles of the post the old order of the English landscape was changing  I heard from the next Parish the 12 labors women and men have abandoned narrowed for higher wages elsewhere  Nigeria's found him in contempt to the king  Chevron Garner Alona ketchup weather  the feudal Sergeant Eastwood crumbling the bones of service moving strained to breaking-point The Establishment itself was under threat and beds of my labors this one is strongly what does in my mana and throughout the whole of England and like because of it the leading men of the Kingdom appeared before the king then sunrenity for these problems to be ordained  runaway wages with bad news the King Edward the third response astonishingly Swift  the 1349 of the pestilence raged he commanded that workers accept wages at the 1346 levels it was a sign of just how rattled The Establishment felt commissions were set up around the country finding people will charging over the odds for the labor  but the laws of supply and demand proved too strong the Black Death was forcing social and economic change on an unwilling ruling class  but those at the bottom of the Heap sniff put Unity on a new age  this is a political threat to the whole sort of ordering of society this is more than just I'm not going to get enough money she seems very destabilizing to the political system really medieval England  despite the best efforts of King country to stop it the Black Death at cause the world to move on Ultima 1350 after 3 years of Terror and 20 million lives  the Black Death had reached the edges of century Europe  death speaker would soon fade but not before visiting one last hunting I'm professor what does  brother John Quinn a Franciscan friar in Ireland believe the day of judgement of come  struggling again sickness did Britain he made one final amazing gesture I  brother John Clinton of the Friars minor of everything in this book of a notable events which befell in night time  so that such deed should not perish with time vocalist from the memory of future Generations  I leave parchment for continuing the work in case anyone hope you live in the future and any son of Adam can escape this Pistons continue the work just begun but the pages deliberately left blank by the dawn Joan Clinton came to represent much more than a space in which to record the final days of humanity  to this was not the story that followed for the surviving sons of Adam the disease was finally winning the war was over brother Clinton's new page was in fact to clean slate or would you knew history would be written in the decades after the just recovering box of pestilence truck again again  but the resilience of medieval Europe would not reveal itself in fascinating way the remarkable thing about black Jesse's after the first shock of 1348 people used to the blank test you looks into the best I may have survived and plagues come back every 10 years but we survived them to answer this at I think a tremendous energy in the late 14th century just going to show up if you have expressed in painting and poetry  learning to live with it what's a challenge that evil men and women no to coupon themselves  in painting and storytelling there was an extraordinary pushing a Macabre art pictures in which people were encouraged to engage with the horrors of death and decay fart does seem to change as a result of the Black Death the portrayal of Effigies as Skeletor with worms coming out some healthy woman in the skeleton right behind these become more common black death for my attempted hit everyone the death was everyone's companion throughout their life and that's why you get these etchings of the skeleton behind you because that innocence is the way you thinking of death is your constant companion  it was a message portrayed in many English Parish Church the late 14th and 15th centuries  lunchable Church leicestershire the dead rise to the call of trumpets from heaven the images show that death is inevitable but also the Ecstasy of Eternal Resurrection ironically in the Medieval World it was pictures of the Dead that help teach the survivors how to live infinite just like walsham-le-willows surviving peasants like the Denny's Family what coming to terms with in the world lady Rose is now wave 12 Pennies from each acre which used to closest to Schilling till the world improves or another tenant can be found who is judge pay the full rent so  we have more line onion Payless  mistress needs us more than we three creeps of presents the seller will not accepting things as they were before because the Situation's changed I'm sorry we could write about say that 4 we demand more we don't want to perform these false labor Services we want to wait for high wages we going to be able to go to other villages to take on other Holdings whatever it might be many survivors from the countryside were also drawn to the towns and cities filling the vacuum left on the oven houstonia wealth is improved cast of pestilences brought us opened up opportunities my sister Agnes strong-willed as a band in the land of our lady in Flint to Ipswich where she is married a problem with them play these luscious Peter not know his name  so it seems she will escape for those persons who made it through life was better the same could not be said for the landowners crumbling sentimental value to 10 lb last year no neighbors prepared to take orders from anyone with equal inferior and all those who serve do so with a loyal and diminished spirits  the 13th Tree in motion that are 55 laborers men and women even went on strike  then I'm close to the trying to keep things as stop being in the past this is much resented and one can see the origins of the peasants Revolt attacked and she won in the dissatisfaction list the chapters of deprived of the opportunities that they can see available to them English passport flexing their muscles in society relieved with the shackles and section Taste of the high Middle Ages  the song ways to both of the multiple, trace the Black Death I think because it Mount definitive in the end of the idea that you are forever fixed in one social identity  The Next Century became a golden a the English labor are gradually wither away the continent to the survivors of the black best score also writing new chapters in human history Giovanni boccaccio  Ada sheliak I'm Gabriel Jesus among them has you rebounded Millions bequeathed by the dead was spent on rebuilding the pieces wanted to work on that famous icon completing the bell tower in 1350  it was a time to look forward not back searching 50 the pope cools the Jubilee which encourages old pilgrims to come to Rome so can't thousands of medieval pilgrims or the roads you think that'd be the last thing you want to do about foreplay but they do is favorite generative in the narrow streets of the town cities with the black death of the first stalked it was a gradual Reawakening  for the next hundred years renaissance man found pride in the classical roots of European culture  it was a huge outpouring of creativity in the fields of literature art and science ideas that celebrate to the spirit of man in his world it had been the worst Century to be alive I knew other age before or since I fell so close to annihilation what the people of medieval Europe had not lost their nerve healthiest conclusions used to remind ourselves that Europe survived the black tap it survive recurring outbreaks for 300 years of plague can I think that's a very good conclusion to get out of it is the resilience of the human spirit in the face of this sort of a polling on varsity slowly an inspiring story of human survival was emerging  from the brink of the Apocalypse a new vision of hope and dream I've been rested from despair

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