How does the Black Death affect European society and culture?
The bubonic plague arrived in Europe during the already tumultuous fourteenth century. You are asked to write an essay explaining how this affected European society and culture.
The primary sources from Week 13 provide many responses to the Black Death, and you will use these to provide evidence for your arguments. Additionally, I have provided you with data visualizations that show the location of plague outbreaks, as well as their numbers during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. You should not use materials from outside of iCollege.
In your essays, please consider how groups of Europeans would have understood the plague, and how they would have responded to it. Its possible that different groups of people would have had different responses. (For example, the elite vs. the commoners, or the clergy vs. medical doctors.) You are free to consider a single group or to compare and contrast responses. Just be sure that your response offers a clear answer to the question above.
