War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
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Are the Crises in the History of Confession, War, Plague, and Medical History?
There's an agency there that we don't get in the other versions, right? Yes? Yenon, that's cool. It's also, i mean, one thing i really like about that chapter is that a, you know, disease comes through the mercen,. So it's not just the me aris show up, but they bring nasty stuff with them, and it crates problems. Ah, there are medical doctors at the time, in mid fourteenth century, pointing out that plague comes back when these soldiers come to provence in 13 60. And we're talking about tens of thousands of mercenaries descending on provence at this moment. A, and so it triggers another wave
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