Question

Post-plague socioeconomic relations between rich and poor in Europe

A) improved noticeably as Christians sought to make peace with one another to please an angry God.
B) quickly resumed their pre-plague character.
C) suffered as richer nobles rebuffed the sincere efforts of peasants to maintain the manorial system.
D) improved radically as the economy entered into a period of sustained prosperity.
E) got much worse as materially threatened nobles began to regard wealthier peasants and their new-found desires for meat and wine with utter contempt.

Answer 1

E) got much worse as materially threatened nobles began to regard wealthier peasants and their new-found desires for meat and wine with utter contempt.

Step-by-step explanation:

The people who wanted and consumed many types of goods and services died during the outbreak and therefore demand for all of these decreased, and leading to fall in prices for short run. The loss of population created a fortune for the one who left remianed. These new wealthy peasnts threatened the position of the nobles because they not only have wealth now but also means to secure it for future.

Answer 2

Option: E) got much worse as materially threatened nobles began to regard wealthier peasants and their new-found desires for meat and wine with utter contempt.

Explanation:

The landlord trouble eventually helped the peasantry. Lower food prices helped peasant to buy a property and become a large landowner in the late Middle Ages. Due to the peasant developed standard of living, most of them became a yeoman within the village community. Freed from labour service (serfdom) led them to enjoy and exploited land for his benefit that often pursue purchasing leisure things. Consuming meat by farmers in England rose extensively after the Black Death. There was a shift in tastes that decreased need for grain and encouraged toward pastoralism in the countryside. Peasant's also dressing above their station comparing with highborn that led to social change.