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How did the Black Death contribute to medieval society (Set stage for…
How did the Black Death contribute to medieval society
Decline of feudalism
Lords pay peasants more
King refuses - Statue of Labourers
Law refused as higher wage and pay in food and goods
Government became centralized and abolition of peasantry
Trade
Bad
Didn't want to spread plague, isolation, can't communicate for trade
Money put into Church instead
Good
Peasants could trade
Meat easier than grain so good change in diet to being more omnivorous
Medici family made fortune in wool were Renaissance influencers
Plague through trade routes to Europe
Set stage for modern medicine
At first bloodletting and onion rubbing on skin
Wanted to improve knowledge + Pope Clement 6 allows dissection
Allowed dissection
Treatments of symptoms
such as using rose, lavender sage and bay to cure headaches, wormwood, mint and balm to treat nausea and vinegar for cleansing the body of disease
Better hygiene - bathing, washing hands