The Bubonic Plague During The Renaissance

The renaissance is a time where we get some of the best art ever created but, it is also the time where the world suffers its most catastrophic event ever, the Bubonic Plague. Originating from the Gobi desert in China, the plague or Black Death spread like wildfire across Europe and Asia. The Black Death had a major impact on society and the city. A writer named Boccaccio wrote a first-hand account on the effects of the plague. His writing on the plague does a good job on helping historians depict how the plague disrupted the social order in the city of Florence and tells us how it affected families. The plague was a serious disaster in the world during the renaissance, disrupting rule, social order and families. Boccaccio stated that
both the law of God and man were disrupted by the plague. This was because everyone who enforced the law was either dead, ill or there was not enough to keep the laws enforced. So, this means there was no law in the city and the people had the freedom to do what they wanted when they wanted. People began to do things that they thought would keep them from getting the plague. For example, people began to party and have a good time and did not have a care about their selves. On the other hand, people only cared about what was best for themselves and this led to fathers and mothers leaving their children, husbands leaving wives and etcetera. During the Black Death there was no social class, the wealthy were sick, the middle class was sick and the poor were sick. The Black Death threatened the existence of the human race far greater than anything in the history of humans. The Black Death affected the future to come because it wiped out a large number of the world’s population. With or without the exaggerations the Black Death still had a huge death tally and took roughly two centuries for the population to grow back to its size before the plague. Now, this may not be due to the plague but, after the plague advances in medicine developed faster than before. The plague effected history because it tore towns and faamilies apart.