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The Social and Economic Impact of the Black Death in Europe
Learn how population loss created labour shortages, disrupted society and contributed to longer-term economic and social change.
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Catastrophe with consequences
The Black Death caused immense human loss. Its social and economic impact must begin with that catastrophe. At the same time, population loss disrupted the labour system, land use, trade, Church functioning and social relationships in ways historians study as longer-term change.