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Black Plague
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The human ripples of pain are still heartbreaking when made visible to us now. Our friend Agnolo the Fat wrote: “Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through the breath and sight. And so they died. And none could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship. Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices.” The essence of that account is of an epidemic destroying the very
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― The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
― The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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In Siena, where more than half the inhabitants died of the plague, work was abandoned on the great cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world, and never resumed, owing to loss of workers and master masons and “the melancholy and grief” of the survivors. The cathedral’s truncated transept still stands in permanent witness to the sweep of death’s scythe. Agnolo di Tura, a chronicler of Siena, recorded the fear of contagion that froze every other instinct. 'Father abandoned child, wife husba
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― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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London, England, 1348. A dark shadow has …more
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