[seowulf]

the best way of avoiding death from the disease was to be fit and healthy...

...and the best way to be fit and healthy was not to be poor.

I have read that the black death killed off so many of the peasant serfs that it brought down the feudal system. There were just not enough peasants to work the land, and those that were left could bid up the price of their labor.

Economically, times were good for the peasants that weren't dead.

[stubernx98]

Climate change did it. thaey were in the middle of the mini ice age, and food was scarce.

[Nowhere Man]

I have read that the black death killed off so many of the peasant serfs that it brought down the feudal system. There were just not enough peasants to work the land, and those that were left could bid up the price of their labor.

Some also say that this is what started to kick off the Industrial Revolution a couple of centuries down the line.