중세 말엽 유럽의 흑사병과 사회적 변화

Abstract

The plague did more than just devastate the medieval population; it caused a substantial change in economy and society in medieval Europe. As a consequence, social and economic change greatly accelerated during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The church's power was weakened, and in some cases, the social roles it had played were replaced by secular ones.This article is about the social cultural influence of the Black Death of 1347 to 1350. The Black Death led to cynicism toward religious officials who could not keep their promises of curing plague victims and banishing the disease. No one, the Church included, was able to cure or accurately explain the reasons for the plague outbreaks. This gave rise to change European culture in general very morbid. The general mood was one of pessimism; flagellants practiced self- flogging(whipping of oneself) to atone for sins. This movement became popular after general disillusionment with the church's reaction to the Black Death. The Dies Irae was also created in this period as was the popular poem La Danse Macabre and the instructive and popular Ars moriendi. Granted that the disaster was enormous, the question to be asked here is, how was it placed within the framework of eschatological thought? At a time when people believed seriously in the end of the world and the Last Judgement, how did they change a community of the common prayer(religious society), and finally, how was the anti-Semitism changed after the onslaught of the greatest disaster?