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The most devastating pandemic in history, the plague that broke out in 1347, did not embark on a journey of shared death with rat fleas, as most of us knew, but as the first “biological weapon” consciously used by humans. Two years earlier, Crimean Tatars began looting Genoa’s trading colonies on the Black Sea peninsula. The city of Kaffa (present day Feodosia) was already on the brink of surrender when a black death struck its head unexpectedly among the Tatars.

The besieging army immediately began to squirm, but before leaving the Tartars, they catapulted some of the dead behind the defenders’ walls. Days later, hundreds of dead from Genoa lay with boils on their bodies, at which point they too began to pack quickly and sailed back to Europe. The consequences are known: in five years, a third of the European population, say some researchers, was lost due to the deaths of blacks.

Holiness and godliness mean nothing

The incomprehensible and overwhelming plague radically changed people’s thinking. Until then, all knowledge was carried by the church, its authority was unquestionable, earthly life was about the afterlife and what was not in the Bible did not exist. To this end, almost the entire priesthood died in Italy and France, even those who lived the holiest, most pious, and most zealous lives.

in vain they proclaimed themselves mediators between God and the common people. This fact broke faith in the church, ending the Middle Ages, which lasted for almost a thousand years.

Shameless stories were born in quarantine

Giovanni boccaccio

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It is no coincidence that Decovanon Giovanni Boccaccio’s collection of 100 short stories about the stories of seven women and three men fleeing Florence was written just at the time of the plague. It contains many stories of shields hitherto unimaginable. Boccaccio’s friend was Petrarca, only a few years older than him, who wrote poems in ordinary Italian for the first time instead of Latin. We see them both as pioneers of humanism.

Life has gotten interesting

The essence of the new cultural, spiritual and worldview trend can be summed up in such a way that man is the measure of everything. which was quite a big change compared to the previous exclusive divinity. Man is no longer born on Earth as a sinner, but as a unique and independent entity, for whom the beauty of everyday life does matter. And the Bible and the priesthood were no longer the only source of knowledge. A mass of Italian merchants brought from Byzantium the preserved ancient classical knowledge, the love of man and nature, the desire for cognition.

All of this flourished in a new age style, the revival of “rebirth.” This is the XVIII. Illustration of the century, which in turn, among other things, the French Civil Revolution.

We stayed out, we were also 500 years late

There was another significant consequence (among many) of the great plague epidemic. In the unpopulated lands there was no sowing.

The landlords tried to seduce them with higher wages, they could no longer be held by force.

We do not know the exact data, but Hungary was much less affected by the plague than the countries of southern and western Europe. Based on archaeological findings and hypotheses, mainly those belonging to blood group A died from the infection there. In our case, however, the population of blood group B lived for the most part, which provided greater resistance.

But mostly we stayed out because we rarely lived, we had few cities, we avoided major trade routes, and of course we had no seaport. Perhaps that is why we had to wait 500 years (1848) to free the serfs.

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