The Benefits Of The Black Death

The source is trying to argue that the Black Death was devastating but also had some benefits.It does this by putting out first hand sources of what some survivors wrote in the time or after the Black Death’s effects. The source gives accounts of three people in particular, GeoffreyChaucer, William Langland, the pope, and a group of people the “flagellants”. With all of these people there is an example of what benefit came out of their suffering of the Black Death.Geoffrey Chaucer experienced the effects of the plague so greatly that he “incorporated the theme of the Black Death into his literary masterpiece The Canterbury Tales” (paragraph 4), a book that is studied and has an influence even after that time period. William Langland exposed