The Impact of the Black Death

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Jiabao Wen
Baker College

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The Impact of the Black Death
Introduction
Black Death adversely affected Europe’s population and led to the downfall of its
economy. As result of the emergence of this deadly plague, continuous changes in the size of
the European civilization brought about extensive changes in trade patterns, religion, music,
art, population, education, and other social civilization aspects. Fleas that were infected with
the bubonic flea infected traveling people from rats, causing death to millions of people as its
infestation wreaking havoc across Europe and global dimension. The negative impacts of the
Black Death (1347-1667) on European society included the collapse of the Feudal system
that had initially dominated Europe as a result of the shock to available labor caused by the
plague. The working condition s deteriorated thus radically impacting all the aspects of
European society civilization to a great extent. The Black Death can be considered to a death
kneel to European civilization, and this paper discusses some of the various aspects of
European civilization that were affected including economy, demography, and religion, social
and cultural aspects. Over the years, the Black Death has been considered to be one of the
most significant death tolls of European civilization. The plagues flea that emerged after
Black Death changed the history of European civilization.
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The Black Death slaughtered off an enormous bit of Europe's populace. According to
(Benedictow 2005) the Black Death led to the death of 50million individuals in the entire 14th
century. Maladies spread more remote when they influence debilitated individuals. The poor
methods of cultivation used by Maladies resulted in the land being unfertile, and the
presentation of more sheep diminished the land accessible for corn. Rats and fleas
contaminated with the Bubonic Plague would hop from rodents to explorers, slaughtering
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millions and overrunning the landmass with earth-shaking dread. Typical individuals were
tormented by the danger of death, making them change their perspectives on relaxation,
work, and craftsmanship. Indeed, even youngsters endured. As the plague spread across
Europe, many people became poor as there were little income and farms were affected by the
epidemic. The culture was diminished as people struggled to survive to do everything they
could.
Regardless of how brief period the poor had for entertainment, or what number of
assets the affluent needed to remove themselves from the detestations of the plague, the
Black Death worked its way into relaxation time. Enormous death and memorial service
parades turned into the subject of jokes (Aberth, 2013). In the long run, passing was
overlooked through and through. Stoning somebody seen as a witch mitigated fatigue and
turned into an outlet for their feelings (Aberth, 2013).
The pandemic's harm to art was critical. With the plague destroying religious
communities and houses of worship, spiritual ways were nearly lost, and chapels were being
destroyed. Casket covers delineated pictures of cadavers, ordinarily appearing complimenting
resemblance of the perished inside wearing his or her best garments. A few coffins were
discovered in churchyards across London dated around 1400 bore pictures of bodies with
destroyed articles of clothing and about a portion of their tissue. A couple of figures
portrayed worms and snails chomping on the body (Findlay, & Lundahl, 2017). This
illustrated the nature of the extent of destruction caused by Black Death.
The plague additionally influenced the painting culture. Various sketches were
containing individuals associating with skeletons known as "move grotesque," were charged
by incredible benefactors. Artisans deserted previous traditions of painting Church themes.
Profoundly discouraged by the demise that encompassed them, they started to paint pictures
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of miserable and dead individuals. An example of the painting is the mural painting,
commonly referred to as “The Procession of Saint Gregory” (Byrne, 2012).
Not long after the last ejection of the Black Death, civilization on children and
parenting changed. In spite of the fact that carrying on the family name was still viewed as
critical, the birth rate dropped. Kids were considered "not worth the inconvenience" to raise
(Oliver, & Shapiro, 2013). This was due to the association of skin color and the number of
deaths witnessed. In such a time, raising a child was difficult amidst all the fighting and
deaths from the Black Death.
As the death knell of European civilization, the Black Death changed European
agriculture. Just before the plague happened, the vast population existing made wages to be
continually rising. However, after the epidemic, many peasants left for other areas to find
work. They started asking for more wages and better working conditions.as many lords
agreed to these demands; they soon realized that they have no control over the workers (Bos
et al., 2011). A lot of employees were required to carry out growing and harvesting in the
fields; thus some lords started rearing sheep and other animals as it needs fewer workers and
had a lot of prospective clients for both meat and wool. Production of farm produces thus
decreased rapidly. But as their wages were raised, they were able to buy a lot of vegetables
and fruits. This brought about agricultural changes and standards of living (Bos et al., 2011).
The Black Death affected the industrial civilization of Europe. Rulers resisted
workers' demands for higher wages. The Black Death had adverse negative impacts on the
active relationship between the owners of the vast tracks of land in Europe and those peasants
who carried out work for the lords. As this plague led to continuous death of individuals, it
became quite difficult for people to plow the land, harvest crop produces and manufactures
other goods and service delivery. As a result, the existing peasants started demanding higher
salaries and wages (Aberth, 2013). For example, peasants in some parts of middle Europe
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