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This essay is for english 300 and should be on the black plague. This paper must be based on your analysis, insights and observations about the events that occurred during the Black Plague in Europe.
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6. Discuss the ways in which Europeans compounded their problems by reacting to the Plague with fear and superstition. In fact, irrational thinking, superstition, anarchy, the rise of Christian cults and repression and control by
Church and the Monarchy as they attempted to regain the control that they had lost all profoundly compounded the problems arising from natural disasters. We can learn from this. What are the lessons and what do they tell you about your role and responsibility as a citizen? What is the role of fear in these events? Did fear cause most of the problems in the aftermath of the Plague? Was it the dominant response?
Instructions and Guidelines for Essay Two: The Black Plague and the Middle Ages Your paper must be based on your analysis, insights and observations about the events that occurred during the Black Plague in Europe. Simply retelling and summarizing what you have learned about the 14th century falls short of the requirements for a critical, college-level essay. What professors expect is that you will delve into the topic until something clicks for you: for example, the positive changes that occurred in the aftermath of the pandemic or analysis of historian?s notions about why studying history is imperative: that those who do not know history are destined to repeat. Make summary scarce; rather analyze, make observations, speculate, and only mention events sufficient to illustrate and prove your points. Think about the material and analyze it, using the various texts at your disposal: the reading, class discussions, your notes, your thoughts and your knowledge of human experience. Historical Approaches 1. Vico stated that ?Man makes history.? In other words history does not make the man. This was an important shift in thinking and in approaches to studying history because previously people believed that they were powerless over historical events. Vico?s theory opposes that notion. 2. Barbara Tuchman?s metaphor in her title suggests that even the distant past can serve as a mirror where we can see ourselves today, because in fact history repeats itself. 3. A popular saying about history: the person who does not know history is destined to repeat it. Analysis The Black Plague occurred in a larger historical and social context, where many events transpired that caused some of the most profound and pervasive paradigm shifts in European history. The Plague moved Europe from the pre-modern to the modern age. Indeed there was such a fundamental, pervasive and powerful shift that it affected every aspect and area of European life: government, economics, philosophy, social relations, artistic production, literature, politics, community and family–really everything. The Western World underwent an all-encompassing and overwhelming change.
The preceding paragraphs constitute analysis based on the assigned reading. Note that the above involves various kinds of cognition: definition, analysis, speculation, comparison, observation, synthesis and interrogation. Try to duplicate this kind of approach as much as possible as you analyze the material on the Black Death. I do not expect you to draw the same kinds of conclusions, but rather to take a journey and write about it. Prompts 1. Historians exaggerate the extent to which we can use the lessons of history, because people of the past did not see the world as we do, nor was their world like ours. The world has changed, as people have. Today we would respond differently to disaster and disease, because we are better informed and boast more advanced technology and medicine. 2. There were natural disasters and man-made disasters and by studying those calamities for which man was responsible, we can learn and make better choices in our present. 3. Not only is Tuchman?s account historical, but also visionary, because thirty years after this book was written the parallels between the 14th century and now have dramatically increased and the similarities are even greater now than the date of the publication of Tuchman?s account of the14th Century. For example, global warming was not a topic at the time of her book?s publication date, nor were the AIDS and hepatitis pandemics. 4. While at first glance, the 14th Century was a period overwhelmed by disaster and calamity, not all of these catastrophes had negative impacts in the long run. Indeed while some events such as the Peasant Revolt were inseparable from the anarchy and chaos of the period, eventually the disruption and destabilization of power relations due to the Plague rendered the serfs free from the land and the constraints of servitude. Discuss the Peasant Revolt or discuss the positive outcomes of the Plague that initially signaled Europe?s descent into a Dark Age, but eventually rendered the overwhelming majority of Europeans self-determined individuals in control of their destinies, transforming the serf from peon to bourgeoisie and thereby changing the course of history. 5. We discussed the fact that Europe was poised for an industrial revolution at the dawn of the 14th Century in the early phase of the Middle Ages, and the calamities of the century delayed its advent. However, once society began to recover many technological, artistic and literary (to name a few) innovations usher in the Renaissance and the Age of Reason. Discuss these advances and the changes wrought in society due to their introduction. 6. Discuss the ways in which Europeans compounded their problems by reacting to the Plague with fear and superstition. In fact, irrational thinking, superstition, anarchy, the rise of Christian cults and repression and control by
Church and the Monarchy as they attempted to regain the control that they had lost all profoundly compounded the problems arising from natural disasters. We can learn from this. What are the lessons and what do they tell you about your role and responsibility as a citizen? What is the role of fear in these events? Did fear cause most of the problems in the aftermath of the Plague? Was it the dominant response?
7. Discuss any of the above or choose a topic, from the reading, or decide on a topic of your own on the Black Plague and the Middle Ages.
repression and control by Church and the Monarchy as they attempted to regain the control that they had lost all profoundly compounded the problems arising from natural disasters. We can certainly learn from this. What are the lessons and what do they tell you about your role and responsibility as a citizen? What is the role of fear in these events?
Discuss any of the above or choose a topic, from the reading, of decide on a topic of your own dealing with the Black Plague and the Middle Ages.

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