14th century declining agricultural productivity and bad weather?

Question

Tradgedy was followed by Black Deathwhich arrived in Europe via the trade that had flourished in the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century. Over the period of the plague more than one-third of the population of Europe perished. People reacted to the disaster in a variety of ways, with fear, despair and distrust of many of the institutions that were the foundation of medieval society.

How did how the people's reactions to the disaster of the time were shaped by their social, cultural, and religious experiences; how and why the disasters undermined the manorial and feudal systems and finally include in your discussion the role of science in explaining some of the disasters of the fourteenth century.

Answer 1

One reason that crops failed is that the earth was in a mini ice age. I snowed in july and all that. It lasted a couple hundred years. Just google search little ice age.

Answer 2

You've got a lot of work ahead of you,

I suggest that you look here http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bd...  

and for weather effects http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/...

and here  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_...