The Black Death Ravaged Europe And Its Inhabitants

From 1347 to about 1352, the Black Death ravaged Europe and its inhabitants. While this devastating plague caused an exorbitant loss of life and a great deal of emotional suffering, it did lead to some major social changes in Europe that changed the course of history. The Black Death transformed the consciousness of the surviving populous of medieval Europe in a way no other event that has occurred before or since could. This transformed psyche created the catalyst that expedited the transformation of the feudal system, which in turn gave birth to and ushered in the Renaissance, fueled the religious discontent against the Catholic Church, and provided the foundation for the Protestant Reformation. The Black Death was a pandemic of demographic proportions that occurred in Europe during the fourteenth century. The plague appeared to have had its origin in the Gobi Desert of Asia when Asian black rats, carrying plague infested fleas, got aboard a merchant ship and arrived in Italy in 13 47 (Whipps). Italian merchants from Caffa, on the Black Sea, arrived at Messina, Sicily. Most of the crew was dead, but they carried with them the virulent disease (Ross). Rats, carrying infected fleas, are believed to have come from the ships and spread the disease. The Plague reached England by the summer of 1348 somewhere between late June and early August. The disease reached London on November 1st â€Å". . . and up to 30,000 of the city’s population of 70,000 inhabitants succumbed† (Ross).Show MoreRelatedThe Plague Of The Bubonic Plague1386 Words   |  6 Pagesof history since the biblical eras and has had an undeniable effect on the development of contemporary civilization Gowen, B.S. (1907). The cause of the plague is not known. 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