The Rapture of 1350
July, 2012
G.D.O'Bradovich III
"How do we explain millions of people disappearing?"
"A plague, that's it, that's the ticket!"
Tommy Flanagan
historical maps
essay
The first map showing the spread of the Plague depict the Plague moving at a steady pace throughout Europe. The second map shows the Balkans and Russia unaffected until after 1351. If historians are uncertain of what areas were affected and when, then they could be mistaken concerning how long the process took. The one consensus is that the Jews of Poland and Germany were, for the most part, unaffected by the Plague, although the area is in question. The rational for this is that Jews were more concerned about cleanliness than Gentiles because of their adherence to the Law. Another plausible explanation is that not being Christians, the Rapture had no effect on their communities.
While historians claim to have a detailed knowledge of the micro states of Italy, they have only the vaguest ideas of countries in eastern Europe.
Per Wikipedia (August, 2012):
While historians claim to have a detailed knowledge of the micro states of Italy, they have only the vaguest ideas of countries in eastern Europe.
Per Wikipedia (August, 2012):
[Despite] primitive transport systems, the spread of the Black Death was much faster than that of modern bubonic plague; that mortality rates of the Black Death appear to be very high; that, while modern bubonic plague is largely endemic as a rural disease, the Black Death indiscriminately struck urban and rural areas; and that the pattern of the Black Death, with major outbreaks in the same areas separated by five to fifteen years, differs from modern bubonic plague, which often becomes endemic for decades, flaring up on an annual basis.
The ancient Plague spread faster and killed more people in urban and rural settings than Modern epidemics with major outbreaks separated by as much as 15 years. One could concluded that the "primitive transport systems" was not the cause for the rapid spreading of the Plague. It is possible that these decade and a half separations of outbreak were in reality the same event. (If one Googles medieval forgeries, one gets 920,000 results, including tombstone forgeries. I had always wondered why anyone would forge grave markers, now I know.) It seems that the medieval Plague and current outbreaks are so unrelated in their characteristics as to be different epidemics.
Per the Oxford English Dictionary-Plague, specifically the Plague, the Oriental or Bubonic Plague dates from 1564.
Per the Oxford English Dictionary-Plague, specifically the Plague, the Oriental or Bubonic Plague dates from 1564.
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addendum
Addendum: April 1, 2014.
Researchers now claim the plague was airborne and not carried by fleas. See the full story here and here.
"It [the Bubonic plague] cannot spread fast enough from one household to the next to cause the huge number of cases that we saw during the Black Death epidemics."
Now that researchers claim the plague was an airborne illness and death was within 24 hours of exposure, and not carried by fleas and exacerbated by poor hygiene, we look forward to the reasons and explanations as to why the Jews, for the most part, were unaffected by the Plague.
We also wonder how the experts could be so wrong concerning one of the most traumatic events in European history for so long.
Researchers now claim the plague was airborne and not carried by fleas. See the full story here and here.
"It [the Bubonic plague] cannot spread fast enough from one household to the next to cause the huge number of cases that we saw during the Black Death epidemics."
Now that researchers claim the plague was an airborne illness and death was within 24 hours of exposure, and not carried by fleas and exacerbated by poor hygiene, we look forward to the reasons and explanations as to why the Jews, for the most part, were unaffected by the Plague.
We also wonder how the experts could be so wrong concerning one of the most traumatic events in European history for so long.