Social Ineqaulity in High Medieval Europe between 1100-1500

This research will reflect the socio-economic standards alive in medieval Europe and the contributing factor they were to the plague (Black Death . The argument of the will be that it was due to the squalor of the time period that gave rise to the possibility of the Black Death being as devastating as it was . This squalor was brought on by an extreme hierarchal system , or the feudal system and will be given a brief historical background in the context of this research

Feudal System History

The feudal system that existed in Medieval

Europe was the main contributing factor the economic status as well as the living conditions by which people prospered or despaired . The way of life that existed for these people adhering to a hierarchical system paints of picture of great wealth in consideration of the higher class and extreme poverty for the working class . All of these conditions measure out to form the medieval ages an age by which the class system prospered to such an extent that human life was at risk . That is to say , that because of the living conditions , the lack of privacy and the advocacy of public being the main component of everyday life , disease was allowed to spread rapidly as in the case of the black plague

The ultimate goal of the law enforcement of medieval Europe that is the knights , and the ministry adhered to upholding social justice and as an aside to this , they also gained a lot of wages in booty and plunder In the Middle Ages this proved to be difficult as society was adhering to its own laws of society which was ultimately ruled by nature . The middle ages was not an age of enlightenment instead it was an age by which men lived more like animals than like civilized people . This is proven by the very fact that nature was an all encompassing force that was overwhelming in its breadth as Block states The men of the feudal age were close to nature .and nature as they knew it was much less tamed and softened than we see it today .The wild animals .prowled in every wilderness , and even amongst the cultivated fields . This caused the feudal man to hunt and to abide by the laws of the hunt more so than abiding by the laws of cultivated society

This led more to a state of primitive life than social life . Man was ruled and influenced more in his daily routine by nature , by hunting by animal attacks and precautions than he was instilled with the fear of the ranked knights whose job it was to enforce the law and even less influenced by the church . This hierarchical system paid less attention to the justice of the poor , whose close ties with nature were definitive in defining Medieval Europe , as Keen so succinctly states , The law 's object is ultimately to uphold social justice , and to the Middle Ages social justice meant a...