Reflect the Middle Ages

The literature i've read reflect to the Middles Ages because of The Black Death was happening all around. Reading Pardoner, it explains that a lot of people are dying and they wants to kill what is causing it. "There came a privy theif, they call him Death, who kills us all round here, and in a beath he speared him through the heart, he never stirred. And the Death went his wasy without a word. He's killed a thousand in the present plague. If you should meet him; you had best be wary." The Black Death is connected to Pardoners Tale because it is the causing of people death.