How Did The Black Death Caused Europe's Feudalism And Economy To Crumble?

The Black Death Caused Europe’s feudalism and economy to crumble. It was a horrific event that divided the population in half. The Black Death was a dark time in Europe’s history and is not easily forgotten. The economy and feudalism at this point in time was fragile. It was assumed that they would be protected because lords had wealth and power. Feudalism was also affected like any other country at the time there was not enough money to sustain lords and not enough for them to pay what workers they had left after disease swept through their farm. It spread so quickly through farms is that was off putting for peasants who did work, because they didn’t want to be exposed. Understandably, but they took to subsistence farming and their was a
Feudalism was getting weaker; there was no one to work on the fields which caused a shortage and made prices go higher to where they weren't affordable. Peasants were getting paid worse than before, which later led to the Peasant Revolt. Many people paid the price for the uncleanliness of the entire country. This was not the only reason of course contributions were people who had the disease being in crowded events or when they passed away those who disposed ofthe did not wear protective gear. As stated in the article “The Black Death was to kill 1.5 million people out of an estimated 4 million”(C N Trueman). This was important because I needed to know how it affected other factors other than economy. While this tells more about population this also ties back into feudalism and its
There are historians who believe that the Black Death may have spread differently. “Geneticists and modern historians were putting the rat in the position [of spreading the plague] and were straining bits of evidence” (Cohn,Samel). This medieval historian criticizes the theory of rats and flea carrying the disease. After running a virtual test looking at the statistics found that seven out of the nine cities the human parasite model closer fit records than the rat-flea model. This recent study proves that this event is still a hot priority to find out what really happened. The Black Death caused Europe’s feudalism and economy to crumble as it spread across Europe but it may be in a different method than what was originally