The Black Death Plague

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Article reviewed:

Jerrold, A. (2009, January). The Black Death: An Essay on Traumatic Change. The Journal of Psychohistory, 36(3). Retrieved January 2017, from https://www.questia.com/article/1P3-1617266051/the-black-death-an-essay-on-traumatic-change.

Introduction

The article, “The Black Death: An Essay on Traumatic change,” by Atlas Jerrold published January 2009 target to address the traumatic change that took place in European world to its citizens concerning the population matters in the region. The article discusses the effect of the death of black epidemic in the old period. The article attributes the improvements in childrearing to the societal alignment which resulted from the profound traumatic change which was brought by the Black Death in Europe. The article further stresses that the reassessed change of lifestyle after the plague can be blamed for ruined life systems before the Black Death occurred.

Summary

The author, Atlas, sight population as an impendent that might have been solved by the Black Death, but later people started to increase the population again. People strived to find the new path which could bring back the Mommy’s love creating which was a window of more opportunities to improve not only childbearing but also the alignment in the society.

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