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  • Essay / Black Death - 588

    The Black Death brought many consequences that influenced human life in the late 13th century, such as: increasing disbelief in God, advances in knowledge and attainment of a superior quality of life. These are also factors that contributed to humanism in post-bubonic European culture. The plague led to a decrease in belief in God because everyone felt like God had sent the plague for them to pray and ask for forgiveness for their sins and it continued. didn't change anything. Even popes and priests were dying, no one was safe from the plague, further diminishing the power of the Church, people were turning to different religions for a cure for the plague, even creating new religions like the Flagellants, who believed that if they self-harmed, the Black Death would no longer spread, but it was futile that there was still no religion that could save them from the plague. People's religious views were a haggard wreck of their past glory and they needed to believe in something else. So they needed something else to focus their energy on., ...