{"id":13425,"date":"2022-04-13T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=206451"},"modified":"2022-04-14T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:55:25","slug":"the-black-death-medieval-medical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-black-death-medieval-medical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Death: medieval medical thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 13 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>How do you fight a disease, when you don\u2019t know what causes it? In this episode, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Elma Brenner about medieval medical thinking and how it informed responses to the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/medieval\/black-death-plague-epidemic-facts-what-caused-rats-fleas-how-many-died\/&quot;\">Black Death<\/a>, from ideas about how bad air and misaligned planets could make you sick, to the rituals and remedies used to treat plague victims and the state of 14th-century hospital care.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-206451-2&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/HistoryExtra_BlackDeath_E4-e0fce7c.mp3?_=2&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/HistoryExtra_BlackDeath_E4-e0fce7c.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/HistoryExtra_BlackDeath_E4-e0fce7c.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Note: the primary sources quoted in this series are taken from:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><em>The Black Death<\/em>, translated and edited by Rosemary Horrox (1994)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Black Death, The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents<\/em>, John Arberth (2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul><section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p>Want to hear more? Browse the rest of the episodes in our <strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/black-death-podcast-series\/&quot;\">podcast series on the Black Death<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Wednesday, 13 April 2022 at 12:00 am How do you fight a disease, when you don\u2019t know what causes it? 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