I Shall Protect You From The Plague. Alice Mcmurray. Period

I Shall Protect You From The Plague Alice McMurray Period 6 April 21, 2017 Introduction Greetings, my great and powerful king! It is I, Margaret Stone, and I have come to inform you of the troubles of the Black Death. My great great grandfather, Michael of Piazza, was the first to record information on the Black Plague. I am writing this to protect you from ever getting this terrible, terrible disease. We can’t have a king as great as you die from this; it wouldn’t be a death equivalent to your superiority. I, myself, have never gotten such thing, for God has decided to protect me and the rest of my family, for reasons we do not know of. But, one day, I was looking around in my convent and I was deeper in than I had ever imagined I†¦show more content†¦People had many reasons for why this was happening to them, and how it had gone through the Mediterranean. The main cause of this was, of course, God. This plague was said to be one of the signs that the end of the world was coming soon. Others thought that it was because of the heretics, so people went around killing Jews. That wasn’t the only thing they blamed on Jews; they also blamed Jews for poisoning the water in the wells. But that wasn’t all people thought was the cause of the plague. There were numerous rumors that had to do with the movement of planets, volcanoes, polluted air, and plenty more. But, as we all know, God is obviously the cause. Who would believe any of the other ones? The origins and causes of this plague are awfully important if you don’t want the plague to ever come back. Just try not to get on God’s bad side, and if you ever hear anything about a plague in the Middle East and Asia, beware, you can’t be certain that it won’t pass the Mediterranean Sea. The Symptoms My ancestor’s journal talked of this, especially: the symptoms. This is an incredibly important aspect of the Black Death, for, of course, you can’t know to find cures for the Black Plague if you donâ€℠¢t know that that is indeed what you have. In my great great grandfather’s journal, he explains how he helped the sick, and therefore was able to determine the symptoms of the plague. There