The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
The End of the First Wave
S1 • E12 Oct 30, 2016 31m
Track the final stages of the plague's initial path through 14th-century Europe, from its incursion into Germanic lands to its devastation of Poland and Russia. Study the socioeconomic conditions within Russia, where lack of labor led to a slave-like system of serfdom, and consider psychosocial responses such as the building of one-day votive churches.