The shame of Catholicism, the birth of the bourgeoisie and the exile of the Jews. As an epidemic of the bubonic plague changed Europe

The world is already in full swing about how the world will be after the coronavirus comes to naught. Thomas Picketti writes that any disaster of this scale can lead to a redistribution of wealth and increase social equality - however, other scientists argue that with the same success it can cause a long economic decline and revenge. However, while the number of cases is growing with geometric progression, and scientists do not undertake to determine when the epidemic will end, all these forecasts look very speculative.

Perhaps at least partially questions about the future of the world after coronavirus can answer the analysis of the consequences of previous global epidemics. And the most terrible and, possibly, the most fateful for Western civilization was a black death - the pandemic of the bubonic plague, which destroyed the impressive part of the population of Europe and seriously changed its social, economic and cultural landscape.

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