Ok, my memory was a bit shakey there. I do remember that the
population decrease due to the plague caused a great rise in the value
of the individual worker, which in turn led to something else that was
significant but currently escapes me. Gotta look at some books when I
get home.
Either way, both the Plague and the Magna Carta could go into the top
10 list.
-Bakhtiyaar
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:27:17 -0500 (CDT), Chris Mortika
<cmortika@rocky.itasca.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Jon Gilchrist wrote:
>
>> The spread of the Black Plague, and how it upset the economics of
>> Europe and changed the value of the worker (ultimately leading, I
>> think, to the Magna Carta).
>>
>Black Death: bubonic, pneumatic, and septicemic plague. Introduced in
>Europe through ships coming into Italy, in 1348.
>
>Magna Carta: limitations on the power of English kings, forced on John I
>by the barons of Runnymede, in June 1215.
>
>The Balck Death did change the value of the worker, though. Which _may_
>have opened the doors to the merits of an individual, and to the works of
>Hus.
>
>--Christian
>
>From: Chris Mortika <cmortika@rocky.itasca.net>
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