The Great Plague Analysis

In times of the renaissance in France and Florence in order for your voice to be heard was to revolt. The peasants of the medieval times rose up against their society in hopes of achieving equal rights. While in the French Jacquiere began after a war and the Ciompi resulted after the Black Plague, both events impacted the government as the peasants demanded for greater rights. The early-mid 14th Century there was a time of one of the most terrifying, devastating pandemics in all of history. The fourteenth century was known for the Black Plague. One of the deadliest pandemic ever to hit Europe had let people in a chaotic lifestyle. This pandemic “entered Europe along Eastern trade routes, sweeping across Europe between 1347-1350. Spread by rats carrying infected fleas, the Plague eliminated between one-fourth and one-third of the population in its first wave.” During the time of the plague, there were many peasants and urban workers who were revolting. In The Great Plague by Stephen Porter, he says that “The plague made an enormous impact on its economy and society, but also upon its beliefs, literature and art.” The plague having such a huge impact of Europe lead to the French Jacquiere of 1358 and …show more content…
The Black Plague had brought forth the uprising of peasants to revolt; these revolts had become widespread. “The destruction of the normal order by the Black Death and the subsequent economic dislocation were important factors in causing the revolt.” The French Jacquiere of 1358 was the most important peasant revolt in medieval France. Not only did the French Jacquiere also revolt around the Black Plague, but was also from Ciompi’s Revolt because it was aspired from the Hundred Years War. The Hundred Year War, was a war between the French men and English men during the fourteenth and fifteenth century, which occurred over a 116-year