black death
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- Because there were LESS peasants and MORE demand for peasants,The peasants began to demand more money from nobles or theyrefused to work on the farms. The nobles had no choice so they began to pay the peasants more. The peasant class earned much more and they were able to afford better living conditions and clothing as well as luxury items.
- The frustration people felt at their helplessness in the face of the plague gave rise to violent outbursts of persecution across Europe. Women were also abused in the belief that they encouraged sin because of their association with the biblical Eve and the fall of man.
- The most common targets, however, were the Jews who had long been singled out for Christian hostility.encouraged a large body of superstition which included the claim that Jews killed Christian children and used their blood in unholy rituals, that this blood was often spread by Jews on the fields around a town to cause plague, and that the Jews regularly poisoned wells in the hopes of killing as many Christians as possible.
- The medieval Church did not hold women in very high regard. Women of the lower classes could work as bakers, weavers, and as laborers with their family on the farms of the lord but had no say in directing their own life. The lord would decide who a girl would marry, not her father
- After the plague, with so many men dead, women were allowed to own their own land, cultivate the businesses formerly run by their husband or son, and had greater liberty in choosing a partner. Women joined guilds, ran shipping and textile businesses, and could own taverns and farmlands.
- Jewish communities were completely destroyed in Germany, Austria, and France – in spite of an order issued by Pope Clement VI (l. 1291-1352 CE) exonerating the Jews and condemning Christian attacks on them.
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