by JPL » Wed 11 Apr 2007, 19:41:41
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DesertBear2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JPL', 'P')ost-medieval Europe after the first Black Death, for example. When 50% of the population died and a lot of the farmland went back to scrub-land. Roads were left un-made and whole villages & towns were abandoned.
It was 100+ years before the European economy recovered to the point where people 'needed' resources. Wars weren't possible, during the post-medieval 'transition stage', there just wasn't the manpower to do it...JPL
My knowledge of 14th Century is not the best but it seems that there was quite a bit of warfare after the black plague events.
Black Plague 1348-50
Hundred Years War 1337-1453
"The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: on the one hand a glittering time of crusades and chivalry and exquisitely illuminated Books of Hours; on the other, a time of ferocity and and spiritual agony- a world plunged into chaos. These are the years when the black death struck in the great plague of 1348 -50, killing more than a third of the entire population between India and Iceland, and returned four times during the rest of the century...when freebooting companies of brigands terorized Europe with impunity ...
when a "hundred years' war" seemed to have no beginning and no end, and defying the belligerents own efforts to end it, acquired a life of it's own, "an epic of brutality and bravery checered by disgrace". -- Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror
Good piece of research. The 'hundred years' war was not a war in the sort of terms that we can understand today - it was, basically, a never-ending period of anarchy and chaos.
The 21'st century 'might' end up being similar to the 14'th - I accept that. But it doesn't have to be. I don't see where it's 'Written' (yet???).
