Classic Tides: The Black Death Revisited
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In light of current events, we are re-posting one of my favorite episodes (from June, 2018) on the Black Death.
Between 1346 and 1351, the Black Death killed tens of millions of people - at least half the population - in Europe and the Middle East. This great mortality, one of the worst disasters of any era, fundamentally reshaped European society and set the stage for the world that followed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | Download the app today. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:07.4 | Patrick here. |
| 0:08.8 | So we've done a few episodes of Tides over the years on pandemics. |
| 0:12.8 | Black death, the justinianic plague, and so on. |
| 0:15.5 | Since we are currently living through a pandemic, the coronavirus meets all of the definitions, |
| 0:20.4 | I wanted to revisit these old episodes and put them back out there for you to listen |
| 0:23.8 | to. |
| 0:24.8 | Now let's be clear about this. |
| 0:26.2 | The coronavirus is not the bubonic plague. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm not saying that it is. |
| 0:29.6 | Let's get that straight. |
| 0:31.0 | But it's worth trying to wrap our heads around what the worst case scenarios were like, how |
| 0:35.7 | the disease spread, what it was like to live through it, and most important of all what |
| 0:39.7 | the consequences were. |
| 0:41.9 | As Mark Twain put it, history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. |
| 0:45.9 | So with that in mind, here's our episode on the Black Death. |
| 0:56.4 | In September of the year 1348, northern France is usually lovely in the fall, but this year |
| 1:02.8 | an eerie silence hangs over Paris. |
| 1:06.8 | It's harvest time. |
| 1:08.5 | Paris should be bustling right now in the last few weeks of warm, dry weather. |
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