----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons
> At 12:40 PM 03/05/05 -0400, Damon wrote: > > >>BTW, a prediction I have not checked out is that there would have been > >>far fewer wars than average in Europe in the decades following the Black Death. > > > >Somehow I doubt that. The Late Middle Ages was in part typified by the > >frequency, and the new brutality of war. In Western Europe alone we still > >had the 100 Years War, which reached its bloody climax in the 15th C, not > >to mention the War of the Roses, Burgundy vs. Switzerland, etc. I'd be > >interested in seeing this research, but one thing you would have to > >account for is the changing nature and attitude towards war that developed > >in the Late MA. > > It seems in a short web search that nobody has correlated the deaths from > disease and deaths from wars. I would not expect the Black Death to > depress wars for more than the time for the population to come back up to > pre Black Death levels--perhaps a few decades. > > If anyone has pointers to decent numeric data, please let me know. Here's one site: http://migration.ucc.ie/population/4%20eupophistory.htm Population was not up to the 1300 level throughout the 100 year war. It was finally thought to reach that level in 1500. This was consistent with what I remember, but I bet Damon has a number of other authoritative sources. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
