Reading a book on the Black Death. Pretty amazing how they thought that praying and prostrating themselves would save them. Fairy tales about last rites saving people from eternal damnation bit the Chuch in the ass when most of the priests died/fled and people couldn’t be “saved”
A lot of people had common sense and avoided contact with other people. So only half of the population died.
Then the severe labor shortages allowed workers to demand higher wages. The 1% were outraged. The King tried to forbid people from getting paid more than their pre-plague wages. Exposed feudalism, religion, and royalty for the racket it is. worldhistory.org/Peasants'_Revo…
Book: 
We aren’t done with this nonsense even today. This is really cringe.
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