History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged Podcast
Scott Rank, PhD
Why The Black Plague is Partially (But Not Completely) Responsible For the Renaissance?
8 minutes Posted Jan 24, 2018 at 12:07 am.
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The death of thirty percent of Europe's population in the fourteenth century permanently altered the medieval social order, and many scholars credit the Black Plague with ushering in the Renaissance. But this is not the whole story—after all, plagues have ravaged the ancient world throughout human history without a similar cultural flowering to show for it. We look at other factors that ran parallel to the plague to transform Europe's culture.