Cultură și mentalitate în vreme de epidemie

Abstract

In this paper we aim to present that one of the consequences of globalization, regardless of the era in which it took place, be it Antiquity, the Middle Ages or the Modern Age, besides the commercial exchanges and interpersonal relations, there was the appearance of epidemics, of the global diseases. Of these, among which we may mention cholera, typhus, syphilis, leprosy, and plague, the latter one had the most notable effects not only on the lives of men, but also on their way of thinking, and was called, when it arrived in medieval Europe, as Black Death. In this sense, we will try to follow some of the most significant changes, which take place both behaviorally and culturally, but also their political and historical consequences during the installation of the Black Death in Western Europe in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.