Maybe dysentery would have been better.
Comment on Year of our Lord 1195
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks agoI didn’t say that’s not possible, I said that’s weird, just like dying of plague today would be.
x00z@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Comment on Year of our Lord 1195
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks agoI didn’t say that’s not possible, I said that’s weird, just like dying of plague today would be.
Maybe dysentery would have been better.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would it be weird?
It would only be weird today in a modern western country because of the rarity and available medical treatment being unsuccessful. It was not any different historically from other diseases centuries ago that lacked treatment or understanding. There was nothing weird about it.
fristislurper@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Because the plague specifically did not reach Europe before 1347 as far as we know. Now of course there could be plague in Europe before this, and we modern people don’t know about it because of poor recordkeeping or something. But it would be a bit surprising. Therefore: weird.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plague of Justinian was a pandemic of bubonic plague in Europe (among others) in the 6th century.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4644222/
I’ll offer that humans were dying of Yersina Pestis in Europe before the well-known outbreaks of The Plague.