The Black Death

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Decline of the Land Barons‣After the plague had subsided, the landed gentry saw their wealthshredded by low food prices and high labor costs‣Peasants saw their labor increase in value‣Serfdom began to disappear entirely‣A man could simply move to another manor knowing he would be hired,plus he could negotiate to prevent death taxes and such like.‣By 1450 peasants could often leave a parcel of land to each of theirchildren‣Some Lords abandoned their lands, renting them out to increasingprosperous peasants, who moved to farming animals rather than crops
Not so fast, mate‣Edward-III tried to counteract these changes by new laws and taxes.1351 – Statute of Labourers --pegging wages to pre-plague levels‣This resulted in 1381 in the “Peasant Revolt” [Richard now on thethrone]‣Hard to enforce -- May 30th 1381 Poll Tax collectors were driven fromvillages in Essex
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The Black DeathYersinia Pestis
Page 4 and 5: Why Yersinia?Bacterium discovered i
Page 6 and 7: “Bubonic plague”‣Classical sy
Page 8 and 9: Pathogenesis‣Genome of Y.pestis +
Page 10 and 11: Three epidemics, three biovars‣3r
Page 12 and 13: US outbreak vectors‣Cases in US a
Page 14 and 15: Not a very good bioweapon‣Not spo
Page 16 and 17: Vectors‣When rats die of plague,
Page 19 and 20: Traveling flea circus‣Latin: rode
Page 21 and 22: The original flea vector?‣Tarabag
Page 23 and 24: Spreading WestRest stops for carava
Page 25 and 26: East meets West‣Genoa was on of t
Page 27 and 28: Bringing the plague to SicilyIn Oct
Page 30 and 31: What does the queen command?
Page 32 and 33: What does the queen command?‣To p
Page 34 and 35: No outdoor plumbing‣By the 14th C
Page 36 and 37: Things looking up…‣Early Middle
Page 38 and 39: Fragmented Italy‣In 1347-1348 pla
Page 40 and 41: Roman lunacy‣In 1309 the Papacy f
Page 42 and 43: Clement and Joanna‣In May 1348 Po
Page 44 and 45: Check your horoscope today?When the
Page 46 and 47: England, 1348‣In 1348 England was
Page 48 and 49: More sheep than people….In Englan
Page 50 and 51: The Second Wave…‣In August 1348
Page 52 and 53: You can’t beat us at Football eit
Page 56 and 57: The peasants meet the King, sort of
Page 58 and 59: The Jewish Plot‣By 1348 it was wi
Page 60 and 61: Naughty spanking‣The Brotherhood
Page 62 and 63: Not good for businessAll this sever
Page 64 and 65: It’s gone…so let’s party…
Page 66 and 67: When the labor force is thin, you g
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