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Warpy

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8. The loss of faith in magic was also a big factor

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 08:29 PM

Mar 2015

in the Reformation and eventually the Enlightenment. The church had been utterly powerless before the plague, a single book and prayers in Latin doing nothing for either priests or laity, all were vulnerable and all died.

In fact, all human progress over the last 7 centuries is due to Yersinia pestis and the complete social and economic collapse that followed it.

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

Once it really got going, there was no one left in a lot of households Warpy Mar 2015 #1

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

I would like to recommend a book to you - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by djean111 Mar 2015 #2

I gotta read that sometime. Brigid Mar 2015 #3

For starters, if one Lord attacked another Lord's peasants, the peasants were not killed, but djean111 Mar 2015 #5

Didn't "Ring Around the Rosie" the children's song come from that era? jwirr Mar 2015 #10

The plague in Florence in the 14th century was a big cause of the early Italian Renaissance. CTyankee Mar 2015 #4

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

I saw a doc a few years back that used records to focus on one street in London. LeftyMom Mar 2015 #7

There must have been a lot of poor people who did not have a will and do not show up in that jwirr Mar 2015 #9