What affects did the cataclysmic events of the fourteenth century have on the ar

Question: What affects did the cataclysmic events of the fourteenth century have on the arts and culture of Europe!?

What affects did the cataclysmic events of the fourteenth century - the Black Death, the Great Schisim, the Hundred Years War - have on the arts and culture of Europe!? In our modern times, with its many cataclysms, what affect are these similar events having on the world population!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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One of the most immediate affects was a sort of 'cult' of death!. Images and depictions of death (i!.e!. the danse macabre) began springing up all across Europe, tombs began depicting bodies in various stages of decay as opposed to idealized depictions and just a general sense of ones own mortality began to pervade the mind-set!.

The massive depopulation of Europe also strained the institution of serfdom, simply put there were not enough people to fill all the now vacant positions!. The result of which was more demand then supply!. Governments however did as much as they could to counter this by fixing wages and trying to limit travel, the end result being a number of peasant revolts (i!.e!. watt's rebellion in England)!.

In the modern world I would guess the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction from the cold war had a similar influence on our own cynicism and fatalism!.Www@QuestionHome@Com