Social Effects Of Black Death
Among so many fatal diseases throughout human history, not any one has parallel fame and influences to the human communities compared to the Black Death that emerged in medieval. Therefore, in this essay, I will analyze the influences of Black Death in several aspects- politics, economy, society and culture.
Before getting into any specific aspect of Black's impacts, I will provide a brief introduction to the social background and basic background of the Black Death. There are two key words for the background--famine and war. The famine was due to heavy rains, poor planting, and poor harvest occurs during 1310-1315, and such famine eventually led to tragedies such as cannibalism in 1322(lecture notes). To speak of wars, it was the war between …show more content…
Thus, I will analyze them together as a whole.
Immediately after the first breakout of Black Death in 1347, considering the lower supply of labor and the risks of Black Death, peasants began to demand higher wages, however, landowners were unwilling to give them higher wages. Such conflictions in aspect of economy result in the riots and protests against landlords. Although, most of those protestant resulted in failure due to the unparalleled armor and weapon between peasants and landowners, they have more profound influences over the political system at that time.
The dominant political system at that time was manorial system, in which landlords own their land as well the legal and economic authority, and have peasants work for them. Riots and revolts eroded and shanked the old manorial system, because those peasants gained more freedom from their landlords during the Black Death. Though there is no direct and immediate changes in such political system, we cannot deny its contribution to the development of political system from a historical …show more content…
As a result, the birth rate dropped, but those who survived were stronger and have less pressure to take care of their children. The drop of birth rate continued to 17th century, after the breakouts of the
Before getting into any specific aspect of Black's impacts, I will provide a brief introduction to the social background and basic background of the Black Death. There are two key words for the background--famine and war. The famine was due to heavy rains, poor planting, and poor harvest occurs during 1310-1315, and such famine eventually led to tragedies such as cannibalism in 1322(lecture notes). To speak of wars, it was the war between …show more content…
Thus, I will analyze them together as a whole.
Immediately after the first breakout of Black Death in 1347, considering the lower supply of labor and the risks of Black Death, peasants began to demand higher wages, however, landowners were unwilling to give them higher wages. Such conflictions in aspect of economy result in the riots and protests against landlords. Although, most of those protestant resulted in failure due to the unparalleled armor and weapon between peasants and landowners, they have more profound influences over the political system at that time.
The dominant political system at that time was manorial system, in which landlords own their land as well the legal and economic authority, and have peasants work for them. Riots and revolts eroded and shanked the old manorial system, because those peasants gained more freedom from their landlords during the Black Death. Though there is no direct and immediate changes in such political system, we cannot deny its contribution to the development of political system from a historical …show more content…
As a result, the birth rate dropped, but those who survived were stronger and have less pressure to take care of their children. The drop of birth rate continued to 17th century, after the breakouts of the