The End of the First Wave

The End of the First Wave

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S1 E12: Track the final stages of the plague’s initial path through 14th-century Europe, from its incursion into Germanic lands to its devastation of Poland and Russia. Study the socioeconomic conditions within Russia, where lack of labor led to a slave-like system of serfdom, and consider psychosocial responses such as the building of “one-day votive churches.”