The plague and its effects on European society.

What in your view were the most important effects that the plague had on later medieval European society? "...The Black Death of 1348...casused an effect on all facets of life...was probably the most important event of fourteenth-century history..." Yves Renouard "...Ministers and executors...were either dead or sick or else felt so destitute...that they were unable to exercise any office..." Giovanni Boccaccio The Plague is often referred to as the single most important …

…life" ensued. Men began to "insist that this world was interesting and good, worthy of study, appreciation and unashamed enjoyment," something the Church previously confined strictly to its own monasteries and forbade anything which could harm its control. Europe was on the verge of emerging from taboo, on a path to humanism and understanding of itself and its capabilities from medicine to literature, society began to see itself as much as one as a collective.