Download or read book Justinian's Plague and the Caliphate written by I. Shafigulin and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul [the Deacon] did not leave a detailed report on the disease and its features, but dramatically described his impressions of what he saw: "The homes remained abandoned, and only dogs guarded the empty house. A herd is grazing on pastures without a shepherd. Out of houses, estates and castles, which you still saw filled with people yesterday, the next day everyone left, and complete silence set in. The sons flee, abandoning the corpses of their parents without burial; parents heartlessly forgot about their duties, abandoning their ailing children. If someone participated in a funeral ceremony, buried others and got sick himself, his corpse remained unburied. Those burying died during the funeral; those accompanying someone's corpse themselves became recipients of such a courtesy." /// "And during the plague there was such mortality [107] in all that area, that it is even impossible to count how many people have died there. And in fact, when there was not enough coffins and boards, then buried in one grave were ten or more people. They estimated that in the Basilica of St. Peter [108] one Sunday there were three hundred dead. And death itself was sudden. Namely, when a wound appeared like a snake in the groin or under the armpits, man was so poisoned that he lets the spirit [go, i.e. dies] on the second or the third day. The power of the poison deprived a person of consciousness. Presbyter Katon also died at that time; while many fled from this plague, he never left his place [109], participated in the burial of the dead and bravely served panakhidas [requiem]. This presbyter was very human and filled with love for ordinary people; and I think that this circumstance, even if he suffered of pride, was for his justification. And Bishop Kautin returned back to the city after being in various places, fearing this plague; but the disease has overtaken him and he died on Good Friday. At the very same hour, Tetradius, his cousin, also died. At that time the disease was strongly depopulated the citie of Lyon, Bourges, Chalon and Dijon." (Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks Book I of the V ») /// However, it must be said that the standing first at the origins of numerology were not mathematicians, but astrologers and ministers of religion. For centuries, the latter believed that the potential of magic numbers can only be revealed through the medium of numbers, and they have steadily striven for this. Thanks to their research, the universality of numbers was used in everyday life - in commerce, agriculture, in nascent engineering. But a deep study of numbers contributed to the development of science and genius breakthroughs in it, and in the 17th century the ancient magic of numbers lost its former popularity, and numerology completely disappeared from [the field of] philosophy. /// "From plague was there was no salvation for man, wherever he lived - neither on an island, or in a cave, or on top of a mountain... A lot of houses were deserted, and it happened that lot of dead people, for lack of relatives or servants, lied for a few days not burned. At this time, few people could be made to work. Most of the people, which could be seen in the streets, were those who carried corpses away. All trade stopped, all craftsmen gave up their craft." /// "There was a pestilence, from which the entire human race approached destruction. ... The pestilence began among the Egyptians. Then it seized Palestine and from there it spread worldwide. ... In the second year, in the spring, it reached Byzantium. "