Radar Ping #6 - How Did Anyone Survive the 14th Century? 💀

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I’m reading Barbara Tuchman’s ‘A Distant Mirror - The Calamitous 14th Century’ and honestly, it’s a miracle ANYBODY survived.

Between the Black Death, famine, endless war, and religious collapse, life was brutal, chaotic, and often short. Grief, loss and despair defined the era.

And yet, people endured.

They rebuilt citie…