The Black Death Quotes

“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.”
― Robert Steven Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe

“Sumptuary laws were passed to regulate fashions, particularly those of the third order.37 Rising standards of living and Epicurean attitudes had produced new tastes in fashion, particularly in clothing.”
― Robert Steven Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen and bourgeois suffered along with the peasants as food costs took an ever-higher proportion of their incomes.”
― Robert Steven Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe