![]() ![]() Medieval architecture emerged in this environment, raising the faith of the population, in a threatening daily life. It also caused the abandonment of the sick people in the streets and the announcement of the end of the world. It provoked the exaggerated recourse to religion and faith to some, as the last hope, and to others, the discrediting and still the surrender to the pleasures, cultivating the idleness and vagrancy. Insecurity and instability have led to popular revolts that have caused panic and violence. ![]() Hunger was combined with war, lack of hygienic conditions and quality of life, which were the causes of the high mortality rate that affected mainly newborns and children.įear of death was common to all, modifying medieval mentality and behavior. This epidemic has altered daily life by sowing terror, paralyzing trade and production, lack of labor in the countryside, causing a wave of hunger and giving rise to monetary crises that have set the economic depression. ![]() It is said that in London were buried each day 200 bodies and, it is known that in Florence this catastrophe caused the death to 60 percent of its 100,000 inhabitants in this period. The precarious hygienic conditions of the cities facilitated the spread of the plague. The period was marked by the Black Death, which arrived in Europe through Genoese ships, and which killed one third of the European population from 1347 to 1451 (between 25 and 75 million people).īlack Deth – Pierart dou Tielt (fl. In the Île de France, near Paris, developing essentially between the thirteenth and fifteenth century in Western Europe. The Gothic style arises from the Romanesque, after continuous technical and aesthetic improvements, in the middle of the Middle Ages. ![]()
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