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November 9, 2021 - March 12, 2022
Such catastrophes can have a huge effect on the institutions of society.
Yet the plague also had a socially, economically, and politically transformative impact on medieval European societies.
It was a highly extractive system, with wealth flowing upward from the many peasants to the few lords.
The massive scarcity of labor created by the plague shook the foundations of the feudal order.
