ion site, or hunters in a forests. And in each scene, mingled with the living, are skeletons: skeleton horses carry corpses to the hunt; peasant girls dance with death; a skeleton receives an infant from its baptismal font. This ghastly style just shows the extent of the damage that the plague has caused the people of Europe, that even in the arts, its effects were prevalent. Nothing demonstrates better the effect of the Black Death on Europe than these works of art.The loss of life in such great numbers and to so gruesome a disease, brought despair everywhere. People started to question God (Knox, 1995). Why would God do this? "During this great epidemic of death [in Tuscany] more than eighty died of every hundred, and the air was so infested that death overtook men everywhere, wherever they might flee. And when they saw everybody dying they no longer heeded death and believed that the end of the world was at hand" (Knox, 1995) This paper has presented the economic, social, as well as cultural effects of the Black Death in medieval Europe. And indeed, this quotation of Knoxs (at the previous paragraph) most likely echoed the sentiments of the people at that time. All over Europe, many believed that this calamity, the Black Death, marked the end of the world. Even after the crisis had passed, and the world remained, there were those who wondered why God should have so scourged the world....
