do you consider the Black Death to a turning point for the society & culture of Europe?

Question

If so, how?

Answer 1

One of the many ways in which the Black Death influenced the course of European history is demographic: the loss of so many people (up to a third of the total population of Europe) led to a shortage in labor, allowing survivors to charge more for their labor and negotiate with their lords for changes in the terms of their work. Their increased prosperity made them healthier (they were able on more occasions to eat meat) while it also stimulated investment, commerce, and trade. So there were tangible economic and political outcomes.

Answer 2

I don't know about the black death, but how about the inquisition being the turning point for society & culture in Europe. A lot more people died because of the inquistion than the plague took out.

Answer 3

After the problem of burying the dead in plague pits was over, people tried to get back to normality. But life was never the same again. The decreased population meant a shortage of labour and workmen demanded and received pay increases. The government of Edward III tried to cap pay increases by an Act of Parliament, The Statute of Labourers, the first government attempt to control the economy. Workmen who demanded too much were placed in the stocks, that is trapped in a wooden gadget for a day, and employers who paid over the odds were fined. The Act was largely unsuccessful as employers coaxed workers from other employers, with promises abundant pay increases, and wages kept on rising. One recorded case shows that a joiner who built the stocks for the punishment of greedy workers was paid three times the legal rate for his labour.

The government also passed The Sumptuary Act of 1367, making it illegal for the lower classes to spend their new wealth on new apparel of ermine or silk. Only the aristocracy and some senior gentlefolk were allowed to wear these items. Today when barristers are raised to the rank of Queen’s Council, they are said to ‘take silk’, indicating their elevation in status. The Act has never been repealed, so if you wear silk, and if any of Edward III’s commissioners are still alive, you could get put in the stocks!

By the reign of Richard II, the economy had settled down and landowners switched from labour intensive methods, grain production, to low labour processes, particularly sheep farming. Increased wool production boosted the economy and became the nation’s chief export, making England a major economic power.

Answer 4

Yes, the Black Death was such a blow to the people that they started to believe that their lives here are a little bit more important than their religion. Then they had to regroup so they started out like the Greeks, city states. They competed more and more to see who or which is the better city state. Which led to more artists. P.S. I'm a 7th Grader and were are studying the medieval ages to the Renaissance

Answer 5

It was a considerable turning point. after the plaque people started to sleep elevated off the floor .Not on the floor. (rat bites). Today many European ancestral people seem to have an immunity to AIDS.These are the same families who had immunity to the plague.

Answer 6

The plague got them to pay more attention to those "unimportant and insignificant "rats,and clean up the filth they lived in..