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A 5 page research paper that examines how the Black Plague affected social change in English society. The writer demonstrates that the sudden reduction of the English population by roughly one-third created a severe labor shortage. This shortage, while it greatly enhanced the value of the labor of the peasantry, also speeded up the processes of change and ultimately contributed to the decline of feudalism. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of so many people changed the relationship between agricultural supply and demand as agricultural prices dropped dramatically (Mee 66). This endangered the fortunes and power of the aristocracy who based
their wealth and dominance on land (Mee 66). Although they tried to stem the tides of change, it was impossible. The Black Death put a premium on the value of
the labor of the common people, and for the first time in English history, the lower classes had some economic leverage that they could use to improve their lot in
life. The drama of the Black Death changed the way people thought. It deeply affected their basic perceptions. Although the status quo appeared to be intact after the plague abated,
the seeds of change were sown and would soon bear fruit. It began on an autumn day in 1347 when some Genoese trading ships put into Messina harbor in Sicily
after traveling to Genoese trading posts in the Crimea. On board were dead and dying men. The pathology of this disease was truly horrifying. Black swellings that could be the
size of an egg or an apple occurred at the armpits and groin. Soon after these swellings appeared, they would begin to ooze blood and pus, and black blotches would
appear on the skin elsewhere from internal bleeding (Harrison). This disease was so painful that death was viewed as a welcome relief by the afflicted, and it usually followed the
first symptoms within five days (Harrison). Highly contagious, the disease raced through the port town. As it spread, new symptoms developed--continuous fever, spitting of blood instead of the swelling and
death was within three days or less, sometimes within 24 hours (Harrison). It was bubonic plague--the Black Death. It spread like wild fire across Europe. By January 1348 the
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