EventAcross the pillars
A Treatise on Contagion
Target Character, the most learned head in our service, brings us a treatise unlike any our physicians have seen. Against the settled opinion of the age, Target Character argues that the great mortality passes from the sick to the well, carried in garments and vessels and aboard crowded ships, and that a city may shield itself by isolation and care. The clerics will call it impudence against the will of heaven, yet the counsel may spare us the next visitation.
Historical event
- Is
Granada - Date: 1350–1400
- Monthly chance: 1%
Trigger
- Is at Peace
total_effective_building_levels:hospital> 1- Muḥammad Ibn al-Khatib
- Is Alive
- Owner: Root
Exact conditions
- Add yearly gold: -0.2
- CapitalCreate art: Type:
work_of_art_type:treatise· Key:muqni_at_al_sa_il· Artist: Target characterQuality50100
- +10 towards
Innovative - IfAny owned locationHas a
HospitalThenEvery owned locationwhereHas aHospitalGains Contagion Practices for 20 years
Population Growth+0.2%
Disease Resistance+20%
Unrest−10%
OtherwiseIf we had any Hospital Buildings their home Locations would benefit from the Contagion Practices Modifier
Exact script
Gain +7 Stability
Exact script
Requires 3
Characters
- Muḥammad Ibn al-KhatibTrigger
Buildings
- HospitalOption 1
Countries
- GranadaTag
Grants 1
- Contagion PracticesOption 1
Changes 1
Traditionalist vs InnovativeOption 1
References 1
- Muḥammad Ibn al-KhatibAs soon as it happens
Scripting 3
References 3
- modifier_duration_years_longOption 1
- societal_value_move_to_rightOption 1
- stability_mild_bonusOption 2
type = country_event
category = situation_event
image = "gfx/interface/illustrations/situation/battle_for_the_strait.dds"
title = battle_for_the_strait_events.54.title A Treatise on Contagion
desc = battle_for_the_strait_events.54.desc Target Character, the most learned head in our service, brings us a treatise unlike any our physicians have seen. Against the settled opinion of the age, Target Character argues that the great mortality passes from the sick to the well, carried in garments and vessels and aboard crowded ships, and that a city may shield itself by isolation and care. The clerics will call it impudence against the will of heaven, yet the counsel may spare us the next visitation.
outcome = positive
fire_only_once = yes
historical_info = battle_for_the_strait_events.54.historical_info Around 1362 the Granadan vizier and polymath Ibn al-Khatib wrote Muqni'at al-Sa'il, a treatise on the great plague that had swept the Mediterranean a decade before. In it he argued that the disease spread by contagion, established by experience through clothing, vessels, and infected ports, and that isolation could check it.
This cut against the prevailing doctrine, which held that to admit contagion was to deny that sickness came by the will of God. His manuscript survives in the library of the Escorial, a rare medieval voice for what later ages would call quarantine.
This cut against the prevailing doctrine, which held that to admit contagion was to deny that sickness came by the will of God. His manuscript survives in the library of the Escorial, a rare medieval voice for what later ages would call quarantine.