Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When
plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside
down, from relations within families to its social, political, and
economic stucture. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the
streets were ruled by the terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of
death rumbled day and night. Daily life during the Black Death was
anything but normal. During the three and a half centuries that
constituted the Second Pandemic of Bubonic Plague, from 1348 to
1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by epidemics that mowed
them down like a reaper's scythe. When plague hit a community,
every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within
families to its social, political and economic structure. Theaters
emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by terrible
corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled night and day. Plague
time elicited the most heroic and inhuman behavior imaginable. And
yet Western Civilization survived to undergo the Renaissance,
Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and early Enlightenment. In
Daily Life during the Black Death Joseph Byrne opens with an
outline of the course of the Second Pandemic, the causes and nature
of bubonic plague, and the recent revisionist view of what the
Black Death really was. He presents the phenomenon of plague
thematically by focusing on the places people lived and worked and
confronted their horrors: the home, the church and cemetary, the
village, the pest houses, the streets and roads. He leads readers
to the medical school classroom where the false theories of plague
were taught, through the careers of doctors who futiley treated
victims, to the council chambers of city hall where civic leaders
agonized over ways to prevent and then treat the pestilence. He
discusses the medicines, prayers, literature, special clothing,
art, burial practices, and crime that plague spawned. Byrne draws
vivid examples from across both Europe and the period, and presents
the words of witnesses and victims themselves wherever possible. He
ends with a close discussion of the plague at Marseille (1720-22),
the last major plague in northern Europe, and the research
breakthroughs at the end of the nineteenth century that finally
defeated bubonic plague.
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