Post-plague socioeconomic relations between rich and poor in Europe
A) improved noticeably as Christians sought to make peace with one another to please an angry God.
B) quickly resumed their pre-plague character.
C) suffered as richer nobles rebuffed the sincere efforts of peasants to maintain the manorial system.
D) improved radically as the economy entered into a period of sustained prosperity.
E) got much worse as materially threatened nobles began to regard wealthier peasants and their new-found desires for meat and wine with utter contempt.

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The post-plague period saw increased tension between the rich and poor as the labor shortage allowed peasants to demand higher wages and better living conditions, which threatened the traditional social hierarchy and led to resentment from the nobility.

Post-Plague Socioeconomic Relations Between Rich and Poor in Europe