“.burdensome taxes in the countryside heaped on those least able to pay, and poor living standards for the mass of the population - that formed the crucible from which pestilence, even if delayed, would emerge by the mid-fourteenth century to change the ecology of Europe.”Īs of yesterday every single death in the city of St. He died, after being beaten by a guard in the asylum at the age of 47.ħ00 years ago it was clear why people of color are dying now at a much higher rate than white people in the USA. What do I remember most from medical school’s study of microscopic pathogens? How Yersinia Pestis looks under the microscope, yes, but mostly Ignaz Semmelweis, who fought for women’s lives when he recognized that postpartum deaths were being caused by doctors examining new mothers sequentially without washing their hands - thus spreading the bacteria that caused fatal puerperal fever from one to the next.ĭoctors, offended at the very idea! that they could be the vectors of disease, mocked him into a nervous breakdown.
This book, published posthumously from David Herlihy's lecture notes, provoked my conscience. What do I remember most from medical school’s study of microscopic pathogens? How Yersinia Pestis looks under the microscope, yes, but mostly Ignaz Semmelweis, who fought for women’s lives when he recognized that postpartum deaths were being caused by doctors examining new mothers sequentially without washing their hands - thus spreading the bacteria that caused fata History. New evidence for the plague's role in the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism demonstrates that this cataclysmic event marked a true turning point in history.more And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy sees in it the birth of technological advance as societies struggled to create labor-saving devices in the wake of population losses. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrop The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history.
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