Was surviving the black death the best thing that could possibly happen to a peasant?
>all this vacant land
>nobility can't push you around anymore
>qt's everywhere ready to be impregnated
not peasant but everyone
>tfw when no medieval gf
>>1279076
I fucked up
>>1279076
Why not bf instead?
>tfw no qt burly peasant bf
>qts everywhere
Women died too
>>1279260
>you will never exchange sexual favors with a powerful noble for more land or just a few more ducats
Why live
>>1279292
And?
>>1279016
There was a huge shortage of workers so the peasants could demand much better conditions from their superiors who couldn't argue because they relied on the work of the peasant
>>1279016
There's a reason the Reinnsance happened shortly after the black death.
All the people with shitty genes died off and the one's that remained found themself with excessive wealth so they could start thinking about how to invent stuff instead of figuring out how to use 2 potatoes to feed a family of 8
>qt's everywhere
you do realize everyone back then smelt like utter shit?
Besides after that shit passed over, everything went back to the Nobles taking over everything etc
>>1281619
Everyone might of smelt like shit, but if it's everywhere at all times eventually it becomes commonplace and no one detects it. It's like there's an odor in your room you don't smell because you might inhabit your room often enough to get used to it.
>>1279016
Yes and no. Yes, as a peasant you had more freedoms and better prospects than ever before, but no in the sense that society was basically devastated and any chance at a better future was squandered in yet another round of pointless wars.
>>1281611
Nonsense, Italy didn't practise peasant farming like Northern Europe did.
>>1279016
was the best thing to ever happen to europe, major eugenics and increase in average iq
>>1281619
Again, no, thats just your family.
Pretty sure the plague DID actually help peasant rights for a bit at least.
>>1279016
I'd reckon a fair number of poor unlanded subservient saps were able to become wealthy landowners after the plague. Thier descendents went on to becoming wealthy while looking down on poorfags like me. feels bad man.
>>1281611
>Reinnsance happened shortly after the black death.
>"potatoes" in medieval time.
Why are you on this board, senpai?
>>1281611
Yeah they also grew pumpkins and corn and raised llamas.
>>1281666
Fun fact: when the first perfumeries started to appear, peasants would often pass out, because they were so overcome by such an unfamiliar scent. They often had to be woken Up with Manure. Source: World Lit Only by Fire
>>1283927
And tomatoes, you forgot marinara sauce on 15th century Renaissance spaghetti. And sipping tea every afternoon.
>>1279016
Yeah it was. You could claim yourself as a noble and take his land since he'd be dead.
Is it true that the black death caused the development of capitalism?
Yes that is why the middle class became a thing due to the "correction" in supply and demand.
>>1279016
>be french peasant in the XIIIth Century
>have a nice little life, plenty of crops, spend every sunday at the church with your buddies, die fairly fat and peacefully at the age of 50
>be french peasant in the XIVth century
>children dies because of the Black Death, wife gets raped by unpaid mercenaries, local lord is killed at Crécy and the new one hangs you because you paid your taxes late
Ugly pleb roman numbers, use the oriental ones
>>1284092
No, capitalism was mainly caused by enclosure, which in fact is what destroyed the gains made by the black plague more than anything else.
>>1281619
>you do realize everyone back then smelt like utter shit?
Not really.
People actually washed.
Of course, farmers smelled like people that work in cow stables nowadays, but staying dirty is gonna cause lesions in your skin and stuff like that.
