In the wake of the plague #62-100

Lords and Peasants
Previously chapter explained that the plague struck various countries in the Middle East during the pandemic, leading to serious depopulation and permanent change in both economic and social structures. 14th century doctors never identified the emergency of the anthrax epidemic about human because the first stage of the bubonic plague and anthrax were identical; they thought that the anthrax attack on human was familiar and this lad to the dead of a lot of people. History statistics showed that the Black Death estimated to have killed about 30% – 60% of Europe's population.
The Lords of England would hire serfs (slaves but not treated as badly as the American slaves), they would work on their land and would have some reward them with food. The rich would consume a lot of red meat which was bad; also people began to diet and ate wheat and oat which would cause malnutrition. In the summer of 1316 – 1317, the sun did not shine, the crops failed to grow causing starvation and food shortage; there was famine and this resulted in death. Historian believes that the famine and war and bad war contributed to the Black Death. The lack of food made the immune system weak. Undernourished bodies were more easily to prey to the Black Death. Dead bodies were usually stacked upon each body and this would produce an unwanted stench and making people to cover up and not come out. The Black Death represented a crisis that imposed an additional burden on the business men. The business went under pressure.
During and after the plague, landlords put up the price of their land and peasants were trying to improve their position in a labor market favorable to themselves. This resulted in the great medieval working class rebellion, the revolt of 1381. The loosening of the bonds and bound of rural society caused by the Black Death and resulting to the revolt of 1381 led to the working class takeover of the government and a socialist state.
The main social consequence of the Black Death was not the moving up of the peasants, but the further progress along the road to class ramification in the capitalist economy. The wealthiest peasants took advantage of the poorer peasants. Their misery kept piling up. The plague turned the civilization of England into a world that people struggled to get food. It became a fearful world in which natural things threaten people and people lived in constant fear of starvation, devastation and death. Violence, drunkenness and physical accidents were common.
If the lords were struck badly by the great plague, the peasants were struck more and badly, this led the society to grief and caused anxiety and confusion. The peasants who lived during this time felt the displacement in their bones.

Quotes
A poem from the book
Pearls
“Drawn heavenward by divine accord I had seen and heard mysteries yet; but always men would have and hoard and again the more, the more they get. So banished I was, by cares besets from realms eternal untimely sent. How badly, lord they strive and fret whose acts accord not with your consents” (Borroff 98)

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I think that this quote is very important because it reflects how the Black Death took thing away from people; this includes family member, friend and livestock. This quote talks about a girl who is the subject of the poem she was expressed as a pearl by the author. The motif that I saw in this poem was death because the last two lines talk about the people dying and I think that the young girl was killed by the Black Death.