The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
The Black Death's Political Outcomes
S1 • E21 Oct 30, 2016 31m
The social and economic changes brought by the plague were inextricably linked to the sphere of politics. Witness how numerous governmental functions dramatically broke down during the plague, and study how, in the aftermath, many governments attempted to maintain the pre-plague status quo, which was untenable in the new world order.