The dance of death

Abstract

In the fourteenth Century, England suffered numerous catastrophes to occur following on increase in population. The plague’s doctors had not sufficient medical knowledge to prevent the disease’s causes or cure and because of the contactbetween European cities and surrounding villagesthe epidemic spread easily taking a short period; therefore, they had no enough time to recognize what were happening or what was the disease. Moreover, the historians said that the Black Death marks barriers between the high and late Middle Ages, making great changes in English society.Theplague opened more closed for British people to ameliorate their miserable lives, in other side, it was the source of inspiration for many famous writers of the medieval literature; andfor them the plague was aturning point in the thought movement. Freedom of thought, end of feudalism, and development of medicine were themes chosen to write their different works.This thesis paper needs for the argumentative method to persuade the reader by using proofs which answer about the problematic of the topic. This method facilitates to move the plague from its scientific analysis to real problem that faced the English medieval society. In addition, It helps the seeker to recognize his aims, for instance proving that the plague was bless for England, and also the western doctors benefited a lot from the prophetic medicine to cure their patients from the disease. At the end of this thesis, the reader informed that the plague was a blessing, and the Islamic medicine is the best cure for any disease, even it is spiritual or physical diseases, and the western doctors were clever to adopt the Islamic medical tools to treat the plague. So both hypotheses were correct because the Black Death changed the British situation from worse to better one, and the second hypothesis about making difference by using the Islamic tools from 5 centuries until now in Europe it was also correct. the whole work is summarized in this simple proverb, the misfortune of some people are advantages of others, in other words English people sacrifices a lot by losing their families, but these sacrifices enabled them to live a comfortable life.