@anon_opin@mastodon.social In Western Europe it did, east of the Elbe it is generally understood to have strengthened the legal and coercive frameworks to enforce serfdom. Diseases alone don't shape history, human responses to diseases do.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social In Western Europe it did, east of the Elbe it is generally understood to have strengthened the legal and coercive frameworks to enforce serfdom. Diseases alone don't shape history, human responses to diseases do.