How did the black death effect feudalism?

Answer 1

The Black Death killed many of the nobles' people (the serfs). This caused them to realize how much they actually need them. It brought the serfs up and the nobles down, bringing things closer to the renaissance, where most people were equal.

Answer 2

The plague killed off many of the peasants who worked the land, leaving a shortage of labour for the Barons who ruled their fiefs. As there were now fewer of them, the peasants, carpenters, and masons could demand higher wages for their hire, and lower rents. Prices fell, and in the new economic climate, the rising survivors found a profit. This included increasing their land holdings that people had once owned and building stone cottages to replace the wood and mud dwellings they had known as children.

In 1351, while the plague was still present in England, the King introduced a new law, the Statute of Labourers, in an attempt to fix rates and wages, but market forces pushed them up regardless. Peasantry found a new economic muscle, encouraging the protests that lead to the peasant's revolt of 1381. Thus the plague played a part in hastening a gradual change from feudalism to capitalism.

Answer 3

Well, there a quite a few reasons.

But one is that after many people had died during this Bubonic Plague, the survivors changed and the peasants began to stand up to people and began happier and more braver, eventually causing them to revolt.

Answer 4

It was because people died from it, hence the term "death"

Answer 5

The black death started before The Battle of Hastings