Explanations for the Black Plague The Black Plague was an epidemic that occurred roughly (still exists today in African countries such as Madagascar) from 1300-1550 in Europe. The Black Death as it was also known killed one out of every three people in Europe. The most common explanation in the Middle Ages for the Black Plague was that it was god showing his wrath to those who had committed sins (God’s will).
Other explanations for the Plague in the Middle Ages were: -Invisible particles in the wind -Poisoned wells -The Jewish people -Jupiter and Mars had passed Earth closely causing cracks in the Earth, which released poisonous gasses.
People in the Middle Ages were influenced heavily by the church, which forbade the academics, surgeons and doctors to look at the corpses of the Plague’s victims therefore not allowing research for a cure of the Black Plague. People also were suspicious of groups of people such as the Jews and Gypsies and somehow thought they could be responsible for this horrible tragedy. Nearly 400 years before the Black plague hit Europe the cause had already been found the germs on fleas, which were spread by rats. In the Middle Ages, information as critical as this may have been dismissed due to a poor system. Today, it has been realized that the plague can be cured by the application of soap and water.
In modern times, when an epidemic breaks out highly trained personnel try to find the cure with the latest technology and with no religious bias.
The Term Paper on Black Crisis Middle Class
There is something tragically askew in the religious state of black Americans; namely, the near-failure of qualitative development in integrated and / or separate black middle-class churches and denominations. That same near-failure is of course evident in every mainstream Protestant denomination, black or white, whether the criteria be lack of growth or loss of adult membership, youth ...
