The Black Death — Part Two

This unseen terror, claiming lives with terrifying speed, ripped through the fabric of medieval life, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Institutions that formed the bedrock of society — the Church and the feudal governments — were left stunned and helpless, like victims of a dragon’s sudden, fiery rampage. “It is almost impossible,” wrote a contemporary French chronicler in 1348, “to credit the mortality throughout the whole country. Travellers, merchants, pilgrims and others who have passed through it declare that they have found cattle wandering without herdsmen in the fields, towns and waste-lands; that they see barns and wine cellars standing wide open, houses empty and few people to be found anywhere… and in many different areas, both lands and fields are lying uncultivated.” <a href="https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-black-death-part-two-be7f4a9dfd54">Read More</a>