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Eurasia · Late Middle Ages

The Great Mortality

A bacterium redraws Europe. Faith, labor, and fear renegotiate.

Yersinia pestis travels with grain, fleas, and ships. Cities invent explanations faster than they invent medicine. When the dying slows, wages, faith, and power do not return to their old sizes.

M · 1346–1353 · 3 episodes · survival

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Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 15 min · 1347

    Ships at Messina

    Genoese galleys bring more than cloth.

  2. Episode 2 · 17 min · 1348–1351

    The Empty Manor

    Labor becomes scarce. Custom discovers it was a price.

  3. Episode 3 · 14 min · 1349

    Flagellants and Other Answers

    When medicine has no map, meaning becomes a mob.