How Did The Bubonic Plague European Society

The Bubonic plague was a dramatic time period in European history because the illness killed off ⅓ of Europe’s population at the time and it caused a drastic cultural shift. Before the Bubonic plague, the Catholic church controlled everything from language to art to the way the people thought. The European Society was based on a hierarchical system, where a person would be born into a social class and lived their life in that class and could not grow in society. After the Bubonic plague, many people started turning away from the Church because many questioned God’s reasons for the illness and some lost their faith. The Renaissance also made more people conscious about literature and art and were developing new ways of thinking and people could