“”””The sun didn’t shine in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia for 18 whole months
That summer, temperatures dropped more than 30 degrees in parts of Europe and Asia (it even snowed in China), so crops failed, leading to widespread famine, starvation, and economic stagnation.””””
I have often wondered what madness must have been normal for all the humans of that time, when conversations about European weirdness or religious zealotry arise and are about the period of the dates of the Black Plague I often point out that people’s minds and their culture had to have been greatly affected by the mass of unexplained and sinister death all around them.
Bring out your dead.