In the wake of the Plague (184-220)

Heritage of the African Rifts

In the early 1960s-70s, Paleontologist made discovery near the borders of Kenya and Tanzania. Grant Johannsen found the skeleton of the earliest human being that was 2.5 million years old. They gave her the name Lucy because the song that was playing at the moment of her discovery was the Beatle’s song called “Lucy in the Diamond”. Human species spread from African over the rest of the world. Historians have concluded that the Nile River remained the avenue in later times for the spread of the anti-humanoid epidemic, from medieval plague to modern AIDS. Lucy’s homeland is the starting point of human society and the starting point of disease that threatens the existence of humanity. The West Nile virus that threatened New York City and Long Island in the summer of 1999 and 2000 originated in East African and in the West Nile district of Uganda. Theses disease originated in Easy African because there was more living organism (Lucy’s type) located there than anywhere in the world.
The most deadly pandemics are smallpox, Gonorrhea and bubonic plague. Smallpox wiped 9 million Native Americans in México. Historians believe that it originated from the black hole in Central Asia or East Africa. Gonorrhea is the first sexual transmitted disease. It drifted from Central Asia or East Africa. It generated in Roman Empire which tolerated any kind of sexual intercourse including copulation with animals.

The After Math
Motifs have been used to describe the life style during the Black Death. In metaphorical construction the Black Death stands as the moon of the cold darkness, it also was the onset of harsh bared-tree autumn passing into winter. The Dance of Death in which skeletons are dancing from musky graveyard was a favorite motif of art and literature, projected the ideological anxiety of the society during the Black Death. Dance of Death exhibited pessimism, lassitude and loss of confidence. Most Historians believe that the Black Death made it possible for the renaissance and proto-modern world by breaking out old culture. “Black death was the trauma that liberated the new” (cantor 214). Black Death accelerated the decline of the serfdom; improvement demonstrated how we went from using earthenware to metal cooking pots. Black Death was good for surviving women of gentry’s class.
Religiously, the Black Death helped shift the focus on the body of Christ. It inspired the elaboration of the Corpus Christi festival. It help inspired the Christian to take the holy communion more often than once a year. The Black Death weakened the faith in traditional medieval catholic spirituality and set off a quest of human psychology and behavior and the expression of a more personal sensibility. (Inspired the Italian Renaissance), the catastrophe of the Black Death weakened the foundations of the medieval kingship.

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“Black death was the trauma that liberated the new” (cantor 214).

Reaction
When most people think about the epidemic, they think about the lives that was loss, the reason that the plague started and how it is going to end. When it ends, people talk about how they can restore the civilization back to it normal state like the disaster in Japan and Haiti, buy I don’t think that it make the world a better place. It is fascinating to know that the Italian renaissance was inspired after the Black Death; it made a new civilization that became more interested in art and human than religion. This can be connected to why Shakespeare’s work can seen in human psychology.