Give it to me gay /his/. How apocalyptic was the Black Death? Was it really some zombie apocalypse type shit? Did the government break down from all the people dying? Or is that Hollywood shit?Also, did 60% of Europe really die? That seems like a fuck ton of people. How did the kingdoms and shit even function with that kind of population loss? Wasn’t the 100 years war going on at the same time? How the fuck did the armies function and shit if so many people were dying?
>>17428940I don't have a source ATM but I read like 1/3 of the continent died
Norway pretty much lost the knowledge of writing due to losing close to 60% of their population and almost all their upper classes. They even had to import Danish nobles to rule them to get their country back on its feet again.
>>17428940>In 1348, the disease spread so rapidly that nearly a third of the European population perished before any physicians or government authorities had time to reflect upon its origins. In crowded cities, it was not uncommon for as much as 50% of the population to die.[33] Half of Paris' population of 100,000 people died. In Italy, the population of Florence was reduced from between 110,000 and 120,000 inhabitants in 1338 to 50,000 in 1351. At least 60% of the population of Hamburg and Bremen perished,[137] and a similar percentage of Londoners may have died from the disease as well,[62] leaving a death toll of approximately 62,000 between 1346 and 1353.[50][i] Florence's tax records suggest that 80% of the city's population died within four months in 1348.[136] Before 1350, there were about 170,000 settlements in Germany, and this was reduced by nearly 40,000 by 1450.[139]A lot of people died under pretty horrible conditions, when entire cities are becoming depopulated so rapidly by such a terrible plague I would imagine it would feel truly apocalyptic. You can try to look up when some contemporary witnesses say about the event. 60% is probably a bit too high, I think most historians agree that the number is probably around 30-50% of Europe dying, with some areas being hit a lot harder than others.>How did the kingdoms and shit even function with that kind of population loss? Wasn’t the 100 years war going on at the same time? How the fuck did the armies function and shit if so many people were dying?The 100 Years War wasn't a century of continuous fighting, it was a conflict where battles and ceasefires came in waves depending on the political climate. At the time most kingdoms didn't have what you think of as modern bureaucracies, so it's not like your "department of market tolls" is suddenly so understaffed it stops working, because it didn't exist in the first place. A ton of your subjects died but so did the subjects of your rivals and vassals.
>>17429769It's worth noting that in a horrible way the Black Death was actually beneficial for the common man - the massive death tolls led to labor shortages and lords were desperate to get enough people to work their lands, and as a result workers had a lot more leverage to demand higher pay and better conditions. I can't remember exactly what the claim was, but some economist once said that it took until the industrial revolution (so almost half a millennia) before the average worker saw such rapid increases in real wages again, or an increase in real wage overall.
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>>17429777Europe was overpopulated by the early 14th century and the plague removed a lot of surplus population.
>>17428940>Give it to me gayUsing this from now on lmao
