The Middle Ages

Noblemen

Who lived in 3-story homes, ate 3-course meals, and wore fine clothing?

Peasants

Who lived in cottages they shared with livestock, slept on hay, had open fires in their homes, and ate porridge/ pottage?

Serfs

What did Peasants work as?

Everyday

How often was mass held?

30% of the land in Europe

How much land did the church own?

Keep literacy alive

What did the church help do?

He was not questioned

How did people feel about God?

Classical

What thoughts were mostly forgotten?

They could not experiment with the corpses

Why were there no true scientific advancements in medical knowlege?

Blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm

What were the four humors?

Prayer and Superstition

What was relied on when a person was ill?

2%

What was the death rate of COVID-19?

80+%

What was the death rate of Black Death?

1347

What year did the Black Death enter Italy?

1348

What year did the Black Death enter England and was also the worst year?

Bubonic Plague

What was passed on from fleas, caused inflamed swellings (small eggs), and bleeding under the skin? People could survive but usually it caused death in 3-6 days.

Pneumonic Plague

What is a respiratory infection, spread by sneeze, cough, or touch; death within a few hours and lungs liquify?

Septicemic Plague

What enters the bloodstream so blood cannot clot and causes bleeding from orifices?

Enteric Plague (rare)

What enters the digestive tract and destroys it from within?

Zoonotic

What is it called when animals spread a disease to humans?

25-40% (33% most common)

How much of Europe did the Black Death kill?

60%

How much of Florence was killed from the Black Death?

Bocaccio

Who worked in Florence Italy?

Labor shortages

What happened when peasants grew unruly and demanded higher rages? This led to the rise of the middle class.

It is inevitable

What was learned about death?

He was critical of it

What did Bocaccio feel about the church?

10 (7 women and 3 men)

How many characters were in the Decameron?

A villa in the countryside of Fiesole

Where did the Decameron characters travel to?

100 (10 people 10 nights of stories)

How many stories were in the Decameron?

Two weeks

How long were the Decameron characters in the villa?

‘King’ or ‘Queen’ for the day

Who chose the theme for the stories in the Decameron?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Who cause of death was unknown and his tombstone erected 150 years later? He was buried in Poet’s corner.