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> I am quite sure it is no coincidence that the Renaissance appeared 1-2 generations after the black death, and always held the secret opinion that European cul
by cimmanom 8y ago
> I am quite sure it is no coincidence that the Renaissance appeared 1-2 generations after the black death, and always held the secret opinion that European culture was basically born in the fire that was the black death epidemic.
I've heard that hypothesis from both popular and scholarly sources before. Pretty sure it's a broadly held theory.
- iguy 8y agoI'm not sure I would go this far, there was a lot else that went on. But economically, for sure it was huge... we can actually trace several such swings in pre-industrial England, plotting population against per-capita income (or calories!) and it walks back & forth along the same curve a few times over the centuries.
- chewz 8y ago> I am quite sure it is no coincidence that the Renaissance appeared 1-2 generations after the black death, The opposite - Black Death had delayed the Renaissance for circa 2-3 generations. It was already happening and then the plague came and the Renaisance have played out later in different times and with different people and ideas. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances