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The Black Death How a Pandemic Rebuilt Society

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The Black Death: How a Pandemic Rebuilt Society

How plague killed on an extraordinary scale and transformed labour, religion, government, medicine and the European economy.

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  1. A connected medieval world
  2. Ships bring plague west
  3. Mortality without precedent
  4. Fear searches for meaning
  5. Workers become scarce
  6. Revolt and resistance
  7. Government and medicine adapt
  8. A catastrophe remakes life

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