ot only killed, but also stimulated people's desire to go onpilgrimages, therefore there was no-one to maintain the citybuildings (Platt 170-171).Many of Europe's most important scholars and thinkers, aswell as doctors died during the plague. Medieval medicinefailed in the face of the Black Plague. This massive failuremarked the beginning of the professionalization of medicine, oneof the most far reaching consequences of the Black Plague (Platt177)....
