1. Effects of the Black Death

2. How the Plague Affected the Church
The church lost prestige, spiritual authority, and leadership over the people because it had promised cures and treatment.
The people had many questions for GOD, but since the priests and bishops did not have answers, the clergy fled from the church.

3. How the Plague Affected Leisure
Deaths were used for laughter, and funerals were used as jokes.
Eventually, the deaths were just ignored.

4. How the Plague Affected Art
Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme
An obsession with death. Coffins & corpses

5. How the Plague Affected Children
Since children did not have skills to protect and provide for themselves, they suffered. There is a nursery rhyme written about it in fact. "Ring a-round the rosy. Pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes! We all fall down!" In translation to the Plague
"Ring around the rosy" refers to rosary beads that give you God's help. "A pocket full of posies" was what they used to cover the odor of the rotting bodies. "Ashes, ashes" which is talking about how the church would burn the dead bodies when they were tired of burying them. And lastly, "we all fall down" refers to death.
Parents would abandon their children on the streets, especially girls because the boys could carry on the family name.

6. How the Plague Affected the Economy
The biggest problem was that many people in the working class who possessed important skills were dying. This made the leftover people who did have those same skills, more valuable than the upper class and were given more say.
With this new freedom, peasants and artisans asked for higher pay. The poor people knew that they would die eventually so they wanted to enjoy their life as much as they could so serfs began to leave their land and not maintain it and animals and crops would die because they were taken care of.
The communities became farm less and lawless. murder and rape

7. Cool Facts
In the United States, human plague cases average about 10 to 15 per year.
Worldwide, there are 1,000 to 2,000 cases each year.
7500 victims of the disease were dying every day.
The disease was called the Black Death because one of the symptoms produced a blackening of the skin around the swellings. or buboes.
When a victim's blood was let the blood that exuded was black, thick and vile smelling with a greenish scum mixed in it.