The black death wreaks havoc on medieval villages.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/these-destroyers-towns
December 25, 2024
The black death wreaks havoc on medieval villages.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/these-destroyers-towns
I’d like to hear Reynard’s synopsis of that little parable…
Let’s have a go at reducing it to an epigram, both pithy and witty; Marshal Hollister, by rank, you go first.
Interesting article. The “end of times” theme seems more real then, than now, and there are similarities. But I have to note, percent wise, the largest human calamity in recorded history was the pandemic of European, and African diseases that killed up to 90% of Indians in America after Columbus “discovered” America. For Indians that really was “end of times”.