The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

What in your view were the most important effects that the plague had on later medieval European society?
"...The Black Death of 1348...casused an effect on all facets of life...was probably the most important event of fourteenth-century history..."
Yves Renouard
"...Ministers and executors...were either dead or sick or else felt so destitute...that they were unable to exercise any office..."
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Plague is often referred to as the single most important event in Medieval European history. The Black Death to this day is regarded one of the most dangerous viruses known to man. Possessing tremendous virulence, extreme vitality and speed, it spread like wildfire across Europe. Between 1347-1350, 25 million people had perished - one third of the entire European Population. …