While mice are getting more and more acceptance in modern society, they are linked with cuteness, such as Mickey Mouse, a world-famous cartoon character, you won’t think that 600 to 700 years ago, mice caused a globally spread plague, which made countless global population decrease.
Especially in Europe, the plague directly cut off 1/3 of the middle century's European population and strongly changed the relationship between rats and the crisis in politics, medication, and the social structure during the Black Death in Europe. After the Black Death, Europe’s religious activity and economics are deeply damaged as people started to realize that God didn’t show any favor to the priest in front of the plague and slowly changed their minds from asceticism to hedonism.
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As we all know, the dark Middle Ages in Europe was associated with the rule of the church (Benedictow,2004), and the great destruction brought about by the Black Death became a turning point in history.
This great destruction caused the European population to plummet and become devastated and unrecognizable. Many survivors have therefore questioned the old system and shaken traditional values. Therefore, it is said that it is the epidemic of the Black Death that objectively destroyed the old social system and brought Europe to the dawn of the Renaissance.
In Bowsky, William M’s “The Black Death: A Turning Point in History?”, he determines that during the Black Death, anatomy began to develop, and Western medicine gradually recognized human physiology, which in turn promoted the development of surgery too. Bowsky also acknowledges that the first time the body of the deceased was dissected with the support of the Pope and before this anatomy of the body was regarded as a big rebellion by the church. Therefore, the Black Death has objectively promoted medical advancement.
During the Middle Ages, people didn’t notice how important to keep themselves clean and keep their living environment clean which means there must be a lot of rats in the cities and towns and gives the plague more opportunities to spread around people.
Europeans have thus improved their hygiene habits. Prior to the black death, in the streets of Paris, Rome, Florence, and other cities, sewage flowed across the ground. People do not take a shower all year-round, in order to cover up the taste, talented French invented the perfume. (Horrox,1994)
After the plague epidemic, European countries actively strengthened the construction of basic sanitation facilities, such as excavating spacious sewers, and paying attention to the treatment of garbage, plus the widespread insecticide and disinfection, so that infectious diseases such as plague were effectively controlled. Therefore, the prevention and control of plague are called the “first health revolution”.
People’s attitude towards the church has changed from admitting the plague is God’s punishment into Giovanni Sercambi is trying to give the audience a picture of the terrifying disease that happened in Luccha in 1374, and his idea on why the plague was spread among the people is it’s God’s punishment and no one in his image survive under the angles’ arrows and sword infers how horrible the Black Death was that no one can escape from the disease as it nearly killed 30%-60% of the European population.
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