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2. I would like to recommend a book to you - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 07:05 PM

Mar 2015

Barbara Tuchman. I thought it would be dry, but I found it fascinating.
Barbara Tuchman also wrote The Guns of August.

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I'm watching an interesting doc about the plague on AHC. [View all] Brigid Mar 2015 OP

That's because it got into the lungs and became pneumonic plague. Brigid Mar 2015 #6

I gotta read that sometime. Brigid Mar 2015 #3

The loss of faith in magic was also a big factor Warpy Mar 2015 #8