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Black Plague Impact On Culture

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The Black Plague had multitude of impacts in cultural, religious and economic influences. While the effects were positive and negative, they also contributed to the decline of feudalism, ending the Middle Ages and the emergence of the Renaissance. It also had an incredible impacts on culture in art and literature. Art and literature took a dark tone to represent the bleakness of the 14th century. Art was full of death and destruction. Others impacts were severe depopulation and economic decline. However, there were some positive results as the extreme loss of life meant there was an overabundance of goods, a decrease in their price, a surplus of jobs and consequently a rise in wages. This resulted in improving the standard of living. This

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