The (not so) Great Famine
This period led to an explosion in population, wealth, and cities.
What is the medieval warming period?
This person sat at the top of the Feudal system.
Who is the king?
This is the more common name given to the bubonic plague of the latter part of the 1340's.
What is the black death?
Corpi Morti was the Italian call for people to do this.
What is bring out your dead?
The vicary method called for this to be tied to a plague patient in an effort to draw out the pestilence. Theoretically, its death meant it was working.
What is chicken?
This weather type is at the center of the Great Famine of 1315.
What is rain?
90% of the population fell into this category of the Feudal system.
What are peasants?
Alexandre Yersin discovered the yersinia pestis in 1894. This bacteria is responsible for the black death, and spreads to humans through the bite of this wingless insect.
What is the rat flea?
These religious zealots unwittingly helped the spread of plague during their journey to recreate the suffering of Jesus as a way to win favor with God.
What are flagellants?
Uroscopy was the examination of this for diagnostic purposes. ( It was thought to contain particles of organs that would determine what humors were imbalanced)
What is urine?
An important role of cattle in medieval life.
What is used in farming/manure for fertilizer/source of milk/source of food/bones used in creating implements?
The title given to a 7 year old boy entering the pursuit of becoming a knight.
What is page?
This hard, painful lump is actually a swollen lymph node.
What is a bubo?
This group was unfairly charged with causing the plague, and many innocent people were massacred as a result.
Who are the Jews?
A lancet was used to expel pestilence from the body in this long held "medical" practice?
What is bloodletting?
A common belief as to what caused the famine.
What is divine punishment?
Nobles were the final word in their fiefdom on this subject.
What are legal matters?
This type of plague had a 60% mortality rate. (Of the 3 types, this had the greatest chance of survival)
What is bubonic?
All ailments of the body were widely thought to be an imbalance of these.
What are the 4 humors?
Hanging out in this could repel the miasma with its own foul smell.
What is a sewer?
The Great Famine is thought to be the origin of this fairytale.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
For royalty, this institution was more for creating alliances, and continuing the royal blood line.
What is marriage?
Septicemic plague had a mortality rate of 100%, and an average life expectancy of 15 hours after infection of this.
What is blood?
The brightest minds of this institution gave the official cause of the plague to King Philip of France: it was the result of a planetary conjunction of 3 planets in Aquarius. Mystery solved!
What is The University of Paris?
A paste of flower roots, tree resin, and this organic material could be smeared on open buboes to absorb the sickness.
What is human excrement?