The Black Death reared its head sporadically in Europe over the next few centuries.
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Effects of the Black Death - How the Black Death Worked | HowStuffWorks - 12 views
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How would the peasants that survived the Black Death, react to the huge increase in wages in the cities?
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The people that survived were very hurt because they had seen so many people die, but they were also so happy that they were alive.They had a dance Macabre as a dance to talk to people that have died, and they celebrate being alive
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The pesants who survived the black death, started to have better lives because of the increase in wages. Peasants started to eat nicer foods and made more money from working.
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The workforce had been destroyed -- farms were abandoned and buildings crumbled. The price of labor skyrocketed in the face of worker shortage, and the cost of goods rose. The price of food, though, didn't go up, perhaps because the population had declined so much.
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The Black Death did set the stage for more modern medicine and spurred changes in public health and hospital management. Frustrated with Black Death diagnoses that revolved around astrology and superstition, educators began placing greater emphasis on clinical medicine, based on physical science.
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They had turned to the church for an answer to the plague, and the church had been able to offer no help.
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The danse macabre, or dance of death, is an allegorical concept that was expressed in drama, poetry, music and visual art.
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The range of figures shown is meant to show that death will come for everyone, and the various activities depicted are a reminder that death could always be right around the corner.
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Feudalism and Religion in the Middle Ages - 8 views
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All schools taught religion, most politicians were also priests, and no food was eaten without first saying thanks to God.
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Priests also collected a tenth of whatever the peasants had produced from their land over the course of the year. This was called a "tithe."
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Anyone who was suspected of disagreeing with the church's teachings was called a heretic and burnt at the stake.
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even if they did make it to heaven in the afterlife, they would have to spend a thousand years in purgatory to be cleansed of their sins on earth. So, many rich people would pay the church to say extra masses for them in the hope that it would reduce the amount of time in purgatory.
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History of St. Patrick's Day - HISTORY - 1 views
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Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at the age of 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people. In the centuries following Patrick’s death (believed to have been on March 17, 461), the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrained in the Irish culture:
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Feudal System - 4 views
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prisoner of war, his life was saved by his nobility, and his ransom had practically to be raised by the "villains" of his domains.
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which gave judicial power to the nobles and lords in cases arising in their domains, had no appeal save to the King himself.
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that it even applied itself to the lower orders, and its violation was considered the most odious crime.
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Knights had the right of receiving double rations when prisoners of war; the right of claiming a year's delay when a creditor wished to seize their land; and the right of never having to submit to torture after trial, unless they were condemned to death for the crime they had committed.
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The nobles enjoyed also the right of disinheritance, that is to say, of claiming the goods of a person dying on their lands who had no direct heir
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The right of shelter, was the principal charge imposed upon the noble. When a great baron visited his lands, his tenants were not only obliged to give him and his followers shelter, but also provisions and food, the nature and quality of which were all arranged beforehand with the most extraordinary detail.
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The Feudal System was sustained by the rights and privileges given to the Upper Classes and in most cases enacted by laws. Everything was a source of privilege for the nobles.
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