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Religious and cultural consequences
The omnipresence of death also inspired greater piety in the upper classes, which can be seen in the fact that three
Cambridge colleges were founded during or shortly after the Black Death.
[83] England did not experience the same trend of roving bands of
flagellants, common on the continent.
[84] Neither were there any
pogroms against the
Jews, since the Jews had been expelled by
Edward I in 1290.
[84] In the long run, however, the increase in public participation may have served to challenge the absolute authority of the church hierarchy, and thus possibly helped pave the way for the
Protestant Reformation.[
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The high rate of mortality among the clergy naturally led to a shortage of priests in many parts of the country.
[70] The clergy were seen to have an elevated status among ordinary people and this was partly due to their closeness with God, being his envoys on earth. However, as the church itself had given the cause of the black death to be the impropriety of the behaviour of men, the higher death rate among the clergy led the people to lose faith in the Church as an institution - it had proved as ineffectual against the horror of Y. Pestis as every other medieval institution. But they didn't lose their Christian faith, if anything it was renewed; they began to long for a more personal relationship with God - around the time after the black death many Chantries (private chapels) began to spread in use from not just the nobility, but to among the well to do.
[85] This change in the power of the papacy in England is demonstrated by the statutes of
Praemunire.
The Black Death also had a great impact on arts and culture. It was inevitable that a catastrophe of such proportions would have an impact on some of the greater building projects, as the amount of available labour fell sharply. The building of the cathedrals of
Ely and
Exeter was temporarily halted in the years immediately following the first outbreak of the plague.
[86] The shortage of labour also helped advance the transition from the
Decorated style of building to the less elaborate
Perpendicular style.
[87] The Black Death may also have promoted the use of vernacular
English, as the number of teachers proficient in French dwindled. This, in turn, would have contributed to the late-fourteenth century flowering of English literature, represented by writers such as
Geoffrey Chaucer and
John Gower.
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