1347 The Black Death , which started in Italy in 1347, claimed 40 million lives in Europe within six years. The plague caused a sharp decline in population, chaos in order, and people's pain and anxiety, which seriously impacted the traditional authority headed by the church.
Faced with the Black Death, modern medicine was born from the Holy See's preaching of the theory of condemnation and repentance treatment to the doctors boldly dissecting the corpse to finding the cause. Science has also been freed from the shackles of theology, and a group of scientific pioneers such as Galileo and Copernicus were born.
Facing with death, people's concepts have changed from the afterlife of the Holy See to the present world. The shift from asceticism advocated by the Holy See promoted the comprehensive outbreak of literature and aesthetics. Italian writer Boccaccio wrote "December" during this period, sounding the clarion call of Renaissance .
Rationalism, Scientism , hedonism and individualism in the shadow of the Black Death became a catalyst, helping Italy to be the first to awaken and open the door to the Renaissance, promote the transformation of European society, ended the dark medieval period that lasted Europe for a thousand years, and entered modern civilization.
#Plague and social progress
