Saints
The plague was depicted as this being in medieval paintings.
What are demons?
What task assignment is unique to Wet Nurses?
What is nursing their bosses’ children?
Why did many people turn to religious and supernatural theories to explain the plague?
What is a lack of trust in medical tactics and doctors?
What are the 4 main steps of plague division?
What is disease–>social crisis–>unrest–>blaming minorities?
What does the lily symbolize in medieval paintings of female saints?
What is virginity?
Was it free wet nurses or enslaved wet nurses who were not allowed to marry?
What are enslaved wet nurses?
What are two cosmological (ie, not medical) forces people believed caused the Black Death?
What is God and the order of the planets?
What did the king’s law prohibit Christians from doing?
What is hiring Jewish doctors and buying food and drinks from Jewish people?
Medals of which plague saint are displayed in hospitals to this day as a symbol of protection?
Who is St. Catherine of Siena?
It was illegal for _____ to breastfeed Christian children.
Who are non-christians?
What were three natural causes people developed for plague around the 1360s that began to replace apocalyptic and supernatural ideas?
What is war, poverty, and overcrowded spaces?
Why is the Infant Water Supply accusation the only plausible one from the 11th century?
What is it is the only one that comes from documentary records instead of chronicles?
St. Clare founded this group of nuns.
What is The Order of the Poor Ladies?
Why did the wages of the free wet nurses increase more rapidly after a wave of plague?
What is the higher demand for labor due to mass death?
Who was the doctor who lamented that the “art of Hippocrates was lost” during the Black Death?
Simon de Couvain
Why were Jewish people also blamed for the Leper’s “poisoning attempt”?
What is Christians claimed Jewish people had corrupted the Lepers?
This hero, thought to have saved the city of Constantinople using a processional banner, was nicknamed what?
Who is “The Golden Legend”?
What was the name of the free wet nurse who negotiated for better pay and conditions for herself?
Who was Guillemoneta?
Who were the two Italian writers who imagined apocalyptic fantasies - such as eight-legged toads and floods of toads and snakes - as the origins of the Black Death?
What is Agnolo di Tura and Matteo Villani?
What translation error caused misunderstanding about Jewish well-poisoning to spread?
What is a missing question mark/? after a hypothesis.