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Effects of the black death
Socio-Economic
Before the plague, the king gave all the lands as gifts to friends, relatives, and other nobility who had been service of him.
Europe was overpopulated and peasants had no other choice but to continue working the land as slaves during all their life.
As the plague started to spread, many peasants who couldn't afford for medical treatments died. All these deaths caused a workforce's reduction, which meant that peseants could now negotiate for a better payment.
Once the plague had passed, people from the lower class were mixed with the rich people because now they could afford more finely clothing. Class struggle continue but the authority of the feudal system was broken.
Religious Belief and Practice
As the plague was spreading, their was a doubt in monks, priests, friars, and nuns abilities to perform services they claimed to be able to because they died just as easily as the rest of the citizens.
Also, their charms and amulets people purchased for protection did nothing to stop the plague.
There was a Flagellant Movement in which a group of penitents would travel to town led by a self-proclaimed master with little or no religious training who were whipping themselves to atone for their sins. This movement helped a lot the plague to spread.
A lot of people believed that the plague was created by God's fury over human sins and anyone who died from the disease was suspected of some personal failing of faith.
Persecution and Migration
During the Plague, there were many groups that gave rise to many outbursts of persecution around Europe such as the Flagellant Movement.
The most affected ones were the Jews, or, as the Christians address them "Christ Killer". They believed that Jews killed Christian children and used their blood in unholy rituals.
Jewish communities were destroyed in Germany, France and Austria
Medical Knowledge and Practice
Doctors based their medical knowledge on Galen, Hippocrates, and Aristotle's works.
Medicine began to change with different treatments discovered after the initial outbreak of the plague.
Art and Architecture
After the plague, artistic pieces tended to be more realistic than before and were focused on death.
They tended to express the feelings that the plague produced to them through the paintings.
Most of the paintings made at the time represented in some way the plague
Because peasants could not demand a higher wage, after the plague the buildings built were expensier,resulting in more austere and cost-effective structures.
Post-plague architecture also clearly resonated with the pervasive pessimism of the time and a preoccupation with sin and death.
Woman Rights
They were regarded as second-class citizens, but they gained a higher status following the Plague.
The Lord decided who a women could marry, and, once they were married, their husband controlled them.
Women in lower classes worked as bakers, milkmaids, barmaids, weavers, among others.
Many of the rights they won after the plague disminished as the aristocracy and the Church tried to assert its former control.
Many of the rights they won after the plague disminished as the aristocracy and the Church tried to assert its former control.
