When investigating the human responses to the
plague, consider the following:
It is human nature to react and respond to different events and
circumstances. A helpful technique for making sense of complex
events is to analyze human behavior by breaking it up into several
major categories. These may include scientific
and medical, political, social, or religious responses. These
categories are not exclusive, and one thing may fall into several
categories, but in general these tools make a wide range of data
more comprehensible.
The varied responses to the plague perhaps reveal the most about
the nature of European society in the late Middle Ages.