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To: Zhang Fei

I recommend Barbara Tuchman’s great book on the effect of the plague on Europe titled “A Distant Mirror”. Informative read.


27 posted on 03/16/2020 6:08:51 PM PDT by caper gal 1
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To: caper gal 1; Billthedrill; Zhang Fei; Jane Long; SunkenCiv; All

I am currently reading A Distant Mirror, and read Journal of the Plague Years a decade ago. They estimate the initial death toll from the 1347 plague arrival was about 1/3rd of Europe although there were cities, towns, and villages where it was 80 to 100%. By the 1360s about 60% had died, and at the end of the century Europe had only 1/2 the population it had at the beginning of the century.


41 posted on 03/16/2020 10:33:48 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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