# data[].attributes.headline
The most lasting effect of the middle ages

# data[].attributes.subject
The most lasting effect of the middle ages

# data[].attributes.body
The most lasting effect of the middle ages was The Black Death. I think having the idea that you may never wake up again is detrimental to society. It is hard to reach for your goal when people are dying all around you and death is common to come out of nowhere. The Black Death helps lead to the decline of the church with people wondering why it is happening and how religious leaders are dying to the Black Death. The Black death also reignited waves of anti-Semitism with people blaming the Jews for the plague. The Black Death was a large cause of the peasant revolts.

# data[].attributes.body
“Wouldest thou wit thy Lord’s meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was his meaning”.

This shows how much of a role that religion has on the people. Everything goes back to religion and the church.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Why does he look like puff the magic dragon (from AGT) :)

# data[].attributes.body
"How many valiant men, how many fair ladies, breakfast with their kinfolk and the same night supped with their ancestors in the next world! The condition of the people was pitiable to behold. They sickened by the thousands daily, and died unattended and without help. Many died in the open street, others dying in their houses, made it known by the stench of their rotting bodies. Consecrated churchyards did not suffice for the burial of the vast multitude of bodies, which were heaped by the hundreds in vast trenches, like goods in a ships hold and covered with a little earth.” -Giovanni Boccaccio

This shows the sheer depth of the Black Death. Once it took control of a city its effects were swift and deadly.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
He found a way to look more tired than me in the morning :)

# data[].attributes.body
"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods". - Leon Battista Alberti

Everything from art to work went back to religion. The power of the church and the pope was really powerful.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Okay, this image is a little creepy but with 1/3rd of the population dead you could totally have a skull collection if you really wanted it. ☠️

# data[].attributes.body
The fascination of death started around this time due to the Black death. With the idea that you could die any day, people tried to live life as if it was their last day alive. Art such as The Dance of Death was created due to the fascination of death.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Uh oh, here comes individualism and secularism 

# data[].attributes.body
The church dominated medieval life. However, Avignon Papacy which the pope moved to France instead of Rome, and Great Schism which was the election of two popes. Made people slowly lose their confidence in the church and the pope.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
116 years of fighting, slightly more then 100 :(

# data[].attributes.body
The hundred years war was a rivalry between Britain and France. This also had the rise of Joan the Arc during the war but this also leads to her downfall. There were multiple attempts for peace but it never worked out. After the war was over, it lead to instability in Europe.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
If you were stuck at the bottom, good luck :)

# data[].attributes.body
With the black death occurring all over the world people wanted and needed workers. They straighten slightly away the from the feudal system. Peasants felt the benefits of being wanted and having a higher standard of living. There was a lot of openings during the black death. However, after the plagues effects slowed down, the nobels wanted to go back to the feudal system. The peasants hated this and in some places revolted.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Plague crosses were painted on the door of the infected

# data[].attributes.body
The black death killed nearly 20 million people (1/3 of Europe's population). The black death hit hard in cities especially port cities due to the sheer amount of human interaction from many different places. People thought this was a divine punishment from god.

# data[].attributes.body
The weather started to get colder and there was crop failure, famine, poverty and in some situations there were glacial advancements that overrun towns.