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It has to be said, for the majority, life was damn cruel across the whole 1000 years of the time known to us as the Middle Ages. But conditions in medieval Europe didn’t just vary, they lurched from one extreme to another, depending on the century, the postcode, and whether you were born into lordship, land or labour. There were periods when life was pretty tolerable, with good harvests, fuller bellies and a faint glimmer of better living standards and opportunity. In others, calamities stacked one on top of another, where hunger and disease, often caused by war, made life a misery. As tolerable periods go, the 14th century was not one of them.
0:00 Introduction
2:18 The Good Ol’ Days
3:48 Hard Rain Falling
6:28 Impending Doom
8:29 The Great Hunger
9:46 The Longest Time
11:40 The Great Mortality
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
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SOURCES:
Lucas, Henry S. (October 1930). "The great European Famine of 1315, 1316, 1317". Speculum. 5 (4): 343–377.
Nelson, Lynn H. “The Great Famine and the Black Death” 1315-1317, 1346-1351. Lectures in Medieval History. WWW Virtual Library.
Tuchmann, B.W. (1978) A Distant Mirror, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
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