How Did The Black Death Change European Society

What would you do if you woke up and your entire family were sick with the plague? would you take care of them? Furthermore, what would you do if the if you realized the people you believed in to help you and your family wouldn’t? What if the world on the other side of this devastation would be something completely different? That was a reality for most in Europe during the Black Death. The Black Death the way society was in Europe By making people change their morals and how they treated each other, it changed the way the church, and changed the way people viewed the world around them. An example of how European society changed during the Black Death, would be how people’s morals changed and how they began to treat each other. “When noble women fell ill they didn’t care if the servant who took care of them and saw them naked was a man” (Boccaccio, Decameron). This shows how desperate people …show more content…
“people stopped blindly following the church” (Black Death lecture notes), they realized that the one thing they thought would protect them didn’t, they didn’t respect the dead by giving them services or the people who were terrified of dying hope and solace. “art was no longer just for the glory of the church” (Black Death lecture notes), because people were beginning to look beyond the small view of the world that they had while wholeheartedly and blindly following the church. They realized that they could use art to depict the tragic events of the plague or their lives and or express themselves. Lastly, because people in Europe began to look beyond their little world that centered around the church they, “looked for more information about life and had more freedoms” (Black Death lecture notes). These quotes and facts prove that the Black Death changed people’s views of the giant world around them, that they had yet to