In The Wake Of The Plague Summary

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Norman F. Cantor’s In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death & the World it Made describes the devastating pandemic that spread through Europe in the fourteenth century, reveals the controversial theories on what caused the death of so many people, and gives examples of the monumental effects on society as a result of the plague. The Bubonic Plague or Black Death is an extremely contagious infection that decimated the European population the mid 1300’s. The overall belief is that the disease spread from the bites of infected flees carried on the backs of rodents such as rats, rabbits, squirrels and even cats. It initially caused flu-like symptoms such as high fevers, but worsened as time went on leaving black welts under the armpit and in the groin of the victims before they die. Knowledge of medicine and disease during the Middle Ages was very primitive and had little success in curing patients. One example of a method to “cure” a patient at the time was known as bloodletting or doctors cutting patients to lose blood in an attempt to release bacteria. Even with today’s …show more content…
The land was stricken with the plagueand she was warned to leave, but she remained. Not long after settling in she becomes infected and dies. Because of the upper class’s better hygiene, it was not as common for them to fall ill to the plague, but, just as Princess Joan’s death shows, it was possible. While royal families and other elites had the ability to isolate themselves away from the general public, peasants and clergy had a large mortality rate from being clustered in disease ridden areas. Cantor also speaks of the effect that the Plague has on Jews. Just like in other time periods throughout history, people blamed them for the horrors going on in society. They were segregated into isolated areas away from the disease and when they remained healthy they became even more
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