HIST310

Evaluating Social Critiques of the Christian Mediterranean during the Black Plague

Moral Deviance or Economic Mobility:

Sicily

Florence

• Piazza- Relics & rivalries

• Villani- “gave themselves up to a more shameful and disordered life than they had led before [the Plague].”
• Boccaccio- “all respect for the laws of God and man had virtually broken down and been extinguished in our city [of Florence].”

Moral Deviation

Religion in Sicily

• Papal inhibition 1282 - 1302
• Distrust

Comparing Economic Structures

Inequality

Class Rigity

Change

Florence

Sicily

Pictures

https://worldpackersplatform.herokuapp.com/positions/10396 https://visit.donnafugata.it/en/sicily/contessa-entellina https://www.italia.it/en/tuscany/florence https://romancandletours.com/blog/2018/02/28/a-guide-to-florences-markets/

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