The Black Death - Part 2

robert lamb and joe mc cormick look at religious responses to the black death. This is another name for the big outbreak at the beginning of the second plague pandemic. There have been three major pandemics in world history of o plague caused by the bacterium ursinia pestis. i thought we might begin by just looking at the broader view of illness and also ultimately the divine a. Basically, how did people at this time, in this region view the cause of disease? What did they think about disease? Where di they think it came from, and how did they think you should attempt to treat it?