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Black death: Effects and consequences - Coggle Diagram
Black death: Effects and consequences
Socio-economic effects
depopulation
the serf's labor suddenly became important
negotiate for pay and better treatment
vast reduction in agricultural production and demand due to depopulation
economic recession
Effects on Medical Knowledge & Practice
medical knowledge and practice were challenged
question their former practice of accepting the knowledge of the past without adapting it to present circumstances
new works being written in the vernacular languages
hospitals developed into institutions more closely resembling those in the modern-day
Effect on Religion
WIDESPREAD DISTRUST OF THE CHURCH'S VISION & AUTHORITY.
Increased Persecution & Migration
Jewish were blamed for the plague
Jewish communities were completely destroyed in Germany, Austria, and France
Large migrations of Jewish communities fled the scenes of these massacres, many of them finally settling in Poland and Eastern Europe.
Women's Rights
Women's status had improved somewhat through
Art & Architecture
art
tended to be more realistic than before and, almost uniformly, focused on death (Dance of Death)
Architecture
plague architecture also clearly resonated with the pervasive pessimism of the time and a preoccupation with sin and death.