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Lesson Objectives We aim to understand the … Importance of the blackdeath

WALT: Assess the importance of the Black Death. Describe and explain the nature of the Black Death and how it spread (D) Describe and explain Medieval ideas on causes and 'cures' of the Black Death (C) Assess the impact of the Black Death on attitudes to medicine and disease (A)

What was the Black Death What was the Black Death? Why did so many people die needlessly? • http://www.history.com/topics/black-death#

So what was the Black Death ? So we know that people in medieval times lived in small villages. So epidemics of diseases didn’t usually spread over the whole country. TILL… 1348 A disease reached England that had already killed thousands of people in Europe… ABOUT … Of the population dies in an outbreak of the bubonic plague known as the Black Death. 1/3 1.5m Would go on and kill 1.5m out of 4m between 1348 and 1350… How might peasants react?

T-RAT-TER • In 148# Character summarise the details of the black death. • Use page 54 to help you… • What is it? • When was it? • Who died? Bonus points for Bubonic Plague – Epidemic – 1348 - Buboes

Use the Cards • In your own words write a summary of what they believed caused the Black Death. • Extension – How close were they to the actual cause. How importance was CHANCE as a factor.

Why were religion and medicine so closely linked… What have they got in common?

Doctor, Doctor… Treatments for the bubonic plague were …not very effective. Mainly because they did not know the true cause of the plague. Divide the list of treatments …Write into your own book. A table might be a good way or a split spider diagram. Now write beside the treatments whether they are… - Aimed at curing the plague. - Aimed at preventing the plague. Task EXT: Q Rank them as to their effectiveness. Write a sentence telling me why! Identify factors of change – RELIGION? CHANCE?

Homework. • Read the consequences part of this lesson onwards and create a lesson plan for the following question. • Use your notes and your own research to plan an essay.

Which Picture. Which Picture matches your learning today? Explain why? In your books

Consequences Think about who people turned to and who they didn’t… Who was worst hit…? Who did they blame? • People lost faith with the medical profession and turned back to superstitious and religious explanations of the disease. • A third of the population died with the towns being worst hit because people lived so close together. • People became less tolerant as they became more frightened – minority groups like the Jews were falsely blamed for the black death.

How much did the understanding of the causes of disease change between c500 and c1350? In 1348, when the Black Death reached England, the Church played an important role in medieval ideas. Many people thought illness had a supernatural cause. Other ideas at the time were that disease was caused by miasma, or by an imbalance of the humours. Introduction – Tell me what you going to say in your answer in short. Information – The Filling P.E.E – What’s your point, why have you said it, can you support it with a Quote? Conclusion – Tell me what your argument was. Tell me what your opinion for change is.

Effective Plan. Question: How much did the understanding of the causes of disease change between c500 and c1350? Source: In 1348, when the Black Death reached England, the Church played an important role in medieval ideas. Many people thought illness had a supernatural cause. Other ideas at the time were that disease was caused by miasma, or by an imbalance of the humours. What did they think the causes of disease were? At the time of the Black Death? What the causes of disease were before? Make a decision…Continuity ? Did Galen followed Hippocrates. Were what they thought the causes of the black death similar to that of the Greeks and Romans? Superstitious, Religious or Medical What information must you include… What information could you include…

1 2 Y B What was the black death? How did some people take advantage of it? 8 3 An epidemic. Sold fake potions When did the plague reach England? Fleas on rats 1348 What spread the BD ? Why did the whip themselves? For Gods mercy! About 1/3 How many did the BD kill? 4 People whipping themselves 7 The Black Death What was the bubonic plague known as? What is flagellation? G R 6 5

Unusual positing of the planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.Poisonous fumes from Volcanoes and earthquakes.Bad Air (Miasma) from decaying refuse, spread through the air.An imbalance of the Four Humours.

Astrology was an important part of medicine by the 1400’s. Physicians believed the stars and planets affected peoples bodies because both were made up of the same four elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water).Poisonous fumes from Volcanoes and earthquakes.Bad Air (Miasma) from decaying refuse, spread through the air. King Edward wrote “Have the filth lying in the streets removed with all speed to places far distant. The cities cleansed from all odors so that no death can occur from such smells”An imbalance of the Four Humours.

Activities of groups of outsiders, such as strangers or witches (in Europe Jews were blamed).Holding a piece of bread against buboes and then burying it in ground.

Fasting and praying.Eating cool thingsCarrying herbs and spices to smell.Walking in procession to a church, saying prayers and whipping each other.Cut open the buboes and drain the pus.

Activities of groups of outsiders, such as strangers or witches (in Europe Jews were blamed).Jews were said to have poisoned the water supplies and in some places were burned.Holding a piece of bread against buboes and then burying it in ground.

Fasting and praying.Eating cool things. As this would balance out the four humors.Carrying herbs and spices to smellas this would block out the bad smells. Walking in procession to a church, saying prayers and whipping each other.This is known as flagellation. Cut open the buboes and drain the pus, this would potentially prevent the spread of disease…

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