Dancing with Death – Dance Macabre Story

XIV century was characterized by a crisis level Europe, a period in which the expectations and trust institutions were in decline and the feeling of helplessness beyond any limits.

Disasters in that period were held chain. Little Ice Age (A period of marked climate cooling), as shown mentioned in various writings, seems to have experienced more intense close in two periods: 1200-1600 and 1700-1800. During first period, the Black Sea froze event nemaisemnalat until then, what made the navigation is no longer possible. Many provinces in Europe have been unable to cultivate basic grains and vegetables, which led to famine, epidemics and even cannibalism.

If the Little Ice Age of weak agricultural productivity Europe and made life uncomfortable, brought bubonic plague despair, fear and death.

Since October 1347 when he entered the mainland, and up to late 1400, “Black Death” of the population halved Europe.

And, as if natural disasters were not enough, European society was agitated and territorial disputes, dynastic claims and economic competition, creating conflicts such as the 100 Years War. Although there was a conflict continuously, but a series of hostilities interrupted by long periods peace, the war between France and England has left many victims.

If in the early panic and fear have seized the population, time and quickly put his mark, making all atrocities of that period come to be part of everyday life. People have become apathetic, slack, indolent, allusions to death as a kind of leitmotif of that era.

The evolution of attitudes to death was modeled, then, under pressure from religious speech, and unusual eschatological. Dominican monks of the orders and Franciscans spoke often in their sermons about passions Christ, the end of the world and the Last Judgement.

In this context, created, though, especially for a macabre world, people have discovered, however, a way to come to terms with the idea death and even more of a taunt.

Graves wealthy people began to appear gisanţi (Lines in size, the dead, carved on stone slabs) or transSites (which representations resembling a decomposing body).

They appeared legends like that of the three dead and three of the Vii that talks about three young knights and go hunting întâlnescu that three dead, tell them the latter young people about how fragile life is compared to death powerful.