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Using the Evidence: The Black Death and Religion in Western Europe

  1. Question

    Assessing motives: Do you think the artists who created these visual sources sought to reinforce traditional Christian teachings or to challenge them?

  2. Question

    Using art as evidence: What do these visual sources tell you about the impact of and responses to the plague in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Western Europe?

  3. Question

    Connecting past and present: Considering the various ways that people sought to avert, cope with, or explain the plague in these visual sources, what parallels to the human responses to crises or catastrophes in more recent centuries or in our own time can you identify?