The planned research paper will consider the perspectives of individuals who lived and died in the aftermath of the Black Death, particularly between 1348 and 1350 CE era. in the most famous regions of the world during this period, the reactions, the preventive measures taken to combat the plague, the religious and governmental response. In the collection of primary sources assembled by John Aberth in The Black Death, 1348-1350: the great death of 1348-1350; a brief history of the documents1 it very succinctly provides a condensed description of each document giving the context of the author as well as the source of the main source. Aberth manages to do this while remaining impartial, an admirable skill, especially when it comes to examining primary sources, even in the limited manner in which Aberth does so. Aside from these brief accounts before each source, Aberth adds no additional information or opinions. In his book On the Verge of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Late Middle Ages2, he delves deeper into the reception of the Black Death. He does not immediately start with what happened during the Black Death; it details the world before this seemingly apocalyptic event by examining the social structure that existed in the Middle Ages, such as the rise of chivalry and warlike revolutions and the Great Famine that immediately preceded the plague. In this way, Aberth allows the reader to gain a means of understanding the resulting responses to the plague from the very different but similar mindset of a person from medieval times. For example, although Aberth considers that the main belief was that the plague originated in Western Europe. Lerner argues that the plague was not seen as the end of the world, but rather as a precursor, a sign of this apocalyptic event. He says that seeing this as a sign, Europeans began to prepare their souls for their impending death as well as a method to prevent an apocalypse. Lerner determines that in their belief that the Black Death was sent as a punishment from their God, Europeans viewed repentance not only as the key to the best possible afterlife, but also as a means of eventually curing disease. sources, the intention is to produce an article that will cover as many different perspectives and reactions to the Black Death, whether religious, medical, governmental and scientific..