The_Bubonic_Plague

The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague swept across Europe in 1348 killing millions. We now know that the disease spread by infected fleas that carried the bodies of bacteria. During the middle ages, people weren’t as educated as we are now and they blamed the plague on God, and used the Jewish as a scapegoat. This revealed much about their beliefs and knowledge. People were highly influenced by God and the Church. In Document 1, Giovanni Bocaccio says, “It started in the east either through the influence of the stars or because God’s just anger…” People weren’t aware that bacteria caused these plagues. They believed that God was punishing them. Then in Document 4, Lisabetti Contenni says that when she fed her infected husband a piece of bread touched by the body of St. Domenica, all signs of the plague disappeared. This proved how they believed that everything was caused by a higher power. They believed that God had the power to cure and kill. They believed God controlled everything that happened. They never questioned anything. People were devoted to God, and church was an enormous part of bubonic, plague, people, god, document, believed, says, power, out, just, church, caused, beliefs, about, wanted, very, using, sickness, seem, religious, now, medicine, lives, know, infected, higher, everything, disease, didn’t, controlled, because, bacteria, aware, advanced, wiped, whose