Labor scarcity after the plague embittered lord-peasant relations rather than easing them

Evidence

In the boom condition of the thirteenth century there had been in rural areas a degree of over-population which made many peasants—day labourers, poor serfs-very vulnerable. Now the countryside was more sparsely occupied and a better living was possible for those who remained… . What was new in the slump conditions of the fourteenth century was a bitterness in the lord’s relations with the villagers. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 165

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The plague raised peasant status by making labor scarce and lords poorer — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 270