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"The suffering was simply too great to take in: ‘It seemed to almost everyone that one became stupefied by seeing the pain.....Boccaccio noted that people in Florence stopped weeping at funerals and started cracking jokes instead – a phenomenon he seems to have regarded unsympathetically, although it is a common enough form of emotional self-defence."
— Feb 23, 2026 04:07AM
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"Not all contemporaries shared Gasquet’s views in detail, but there was widespread agreement that the plague had wrought a cataclysmic change, not only in society but within the individual. All the old certainties of the ‘high’ middle ages had been swept away: the feudal system collapsed; respect for social hierarchy and order was undermined; and the intellectual authorities of the past ceased to be believed."
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"For many contemporaries the plague fitted easily into the chronology of the Last Days. Its horrors – along with the earthquakes and wars which had preceded it – were identified with the devastation which would follow the unleashing of Gog and Magog. William Dene of Rochester made the connection explicitly, and it is implicit in the biblical phrases used by other writers in their descriptions of the plague."
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Feb 23, 2026 06:14AM
I am not sure how it is in Kenya, but it is said that funerals in the northern hemisphere take days, and it is almost like a celebration; there is crying, there are jokes, laughs, and everything more. In Brazil, on account of the climate, it is, when too much, a 24h time period occasion. So, somehow, the northern costume has its roots.
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Márcio wrote: "I am not sure how it is in Kenya, but it is said that funerals in the northern hemisphere take days, and it is almost like a celebration; there is crying, there are jokes, laughs, and everything mo..."I think, from my observations, it varies in Kenya because there's dozens of different tribes with different funeral rites. Some communities will organize longer periods of mourning with feasting and dancing and open weeping while some communities are more withdrawn in times of death and grief and bury their dead more quickly.
