In The Wake of The Plague:The black death and the world it Made By Norman F. Cantor (pgs62-123)

Summary: In the late 1200's to be specific the 1280's, England' weather patterns began to change. The winters got longer and colder, and the summers became shorter and cooler. Because of this weather cycle change crops became difficult to grow and people became malnourished. As if this wasn't already bad enough in the summers of 1316 and 1317 it got even worse for England. Because there was a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, from this eruption there came huge dust and ash clouds to cover the sky of England. The clouds wee so bad that the sun couldn't even shine through them. This caused an even bigger problem for England in the area of growing crop. This caused more problems because when the clouds covered the sky, and the sun it brought a lot of rain making it nearly impossible to grow anything, because it was too wet. This ash cloud soon went away, but when it did it left its weather patterns, so even though the cloud was gone the rain kept coming. Because there was so little food because of the bad weather patterns there were even more Mal-nourished people than before. And Undernourished people were even more likely to getting the Black Plague than a well Fed person was. In the late 1370's England's landlords were under pressure on prices and getting rid of all communal labor so they turned to the Parliament. This ended up with the greatest medieval working-class rebellion, Peasants Revolt of 1381. This revolt ended up with most of these peasants getting killed for trying to survive and live. Because of the Black Plague the rich and the peasants separated more and more.

Quote: "The wealthiest peasants took advantage of the social dislocations caused by the plague and the poorer peasants sank further in dependency and misery"(Cantor91).

Reaction: This quote is saying that the peasants became more poor and had to become more dependent on other people to get what they needed to survive. And that the people with the money, peasants or not, took advantage of their wealth and tried to stay away from having to dependent on someone else as much as possible. And this all happened because of the plague.