HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jacquerie, Giovanni Boccaccio, Nouveau Riche
6 Nov 2020
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In literature, authors like giovanni boccaccio immortalized the suffering of their neighbors. His decameron is a set of narratives framed within a quarantine setting. The introduction contains the author"s own painful memories. Alongside literary effects, the plague transformed the economic situation. This shift would lead to a wave of violence: peasant revolts. Shifts in population size lead to economic destabilization. This was the result of the plague in europe: the plague fueled decline in population concentrated wealth in fewer hands. Not all feudal nobles and southern merchants were able to use their wealth to stay alive. In the north, nobility who survived would inherit more land, more manorial power and feudal sway. In the mercantile cities of italy, tensions between older oligarchs and nouveau riche heightened. It became possible for families to corner the market in certain economic sectors. In florence, various guilds from wool to silk merchants and banking concerns were fonts of wealth.
