摘要
黑死病给人类带来了空前的灾难,也对欧洲文化产生了重大的影响。它从思想和政治上动摇了中世纪天主教会的专制地位,为文艺复兴的理念与价值的萌发提供了适宜的环境;它打破了人口僵局,有利于经济的长远发展和技术的改进,为文化的复苏奠定了物质基础。当欧洲从瘟疫的阴影里步出时,相伴而来的是人文主义、个人主义、世俗主义的诞生,以及文学新潮流的涌现,等等。黑死病未必是导致这些现象发生的直接原因,但它无疑对文化的转型起到了催化剂的作用。
The Black Death, an unprecedented calamity in history, had a great impact on European Culture. It ideologically and politically accelerated the decline of the Catholic Church, thus provided a favorable environment for the sprout of concepts and values of Renaissance. Meanwhile, the plague broke the deadlock of population, which in the long run was advantageous to the development of economics and the improvement of technology. In this way it paved the material way for the cultural revival. When Europe emerged from the shadow of the plague, there followed humanism, individualism, secularism and new trend of literature. The Black Death may not be the direct cause of these, it, however, acted as a catalyst for the transition of European culture.
出处
《中国人民大学学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2004年第1期150-155,共6页
Journal of Renmin University of China
