In The Wake of The Plague:The black death and the world it Made By Norman F. Cantor (pg 201- 220)

Summary: So in all of the other chapters this book gave imformation on what the Black Death was and what it caused. But this last chapter of the book debates wether or not the Black Death influenced the Rennissance and te Hundred Year War. The answer to wether the Black Death actually did effect these events is both yes and no. No the Black Death didn't have an impact on the Italian Renissance, but it did impact on the Hundred Year War. Some would think that the Black Death would have more of an impact on the Rennassance more than it would on the Hundreds Year War. But that is not the case. The case is that the Black Death and the Plague had little to nothing to do with the Italian Rennissance. I mean yea people died, but it didnt really impact the evolving of art and literature. On the other hand that was the whole reason why the Black Death and the Plague had an impat on the Hundreds Year war, because so many people died. And to top it off it was a war that was being delt with so not only did thousands of people die not too long ago but more were going to die because of this war.Not only was it the reason that the Black death scared so many people, but the number of people and the spped that it wiped them out was terrifieing and tromatizing in so many ways and to the leaders of the Hundred Year War. So it made people scared of it could happen again, if that many people in that time were to be lost again.



Quote: "Perhaps the Black Death weakened Faith i traditional midevil Catholic spirituality and set off a quest for a deeper naturalistic understanding of human pschology and behavior and the expression of a more personal sensibility."(Cantor210)



Reaction: What this quote is saying is that maybe the Black Death did in fact cause people to want to know more about the human body. Maybe it did destroy or make them curiouse about thir religon. Maybe the Black Death did in fact impact the whole Italian Renassance. The answer to this is yes it affected people and made them question and possibly want to know more and why, but the Black Death was not a major reason for the outcome or the way the Italian Rennissance was the way it was.