Population

Population

1300 - Estimate 5 million
1. 1400 - 2.5 million
  1. Had been decreasing from 1300
  2. 50% died
    1. "not enough alive to bury the dead"
2. Mathusian levels
3. Increasing for 200 years
Urbanisation
1. London was the biggest city
2. Particualy to coastal towns
3. 10% lived in towns and cities
death rates
1. peasants had it the hardest
  1. Can't flee
  2. Worst sanitary conditions
  3. Worst imune system
  4. West Thickly was left deserted
  5. High concentrations of people
  7. 1350 - 1500. 1300 villages were desserted
2. Lots of priests died
  1. 45% died
  2. Not enough for all the confessions
    1. Lollards
      1. Don't need priests to worship
      2. Annoyed that the church still didn't pay tax
        The church was getting rich fro the deaths of peasants
    2. Bishop of Bartonwells: "Any lay person, even a women can hear a confession."
  3. Yoevall had 4 priests in one month
3. 1/3 died in 1348
  1. sudden impact
4. 25 million died in Europe
Posative effects on peasants
1. Increased mobility
2. Higher wages
  2. Wages doubled in Hartfordshire
3. Lower rent
  1. Acute shortage of labourers
  2. Rents in cambridgeshire dropped by 50%
4. Social mobility increases for the FIRST TIME
  1. The Black Death had a huge/dramatic effect on society
    1. Begening of the end of the manorial system

Resource summary

	Created by jakecampling almost 11 years ago