Western Civilization I / Unit 12 WC1 1105 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Famine First: Europe Before 1348
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The idea
Bad harvests from the early fourteenth century, the Great Famine of thirteen fifteen on the witness, left generations malnourished by thirteen forty-eight, with reported cannibalism. Medicine held the miasma theory, bad air, so onions lined the streets. Cities were incubators.
In practice
Florence in thirteen thirty: one hundred thousand people, twenty thousand paupers, the anchor's figures.
Where people slip
Hunger came before plague.
Your place on the trail
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