Brownworth describes the arrival of the Black Death in 1347 as an awful portent of divine wrath in the same year as John VI's impoverished coronation. The population, once the largest in Europe, shrank to less than a hundred thousand.
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Episode 16 (1 mention)
Brownworth describes the arrival of the Black Death in 1347 as an awful portent of divine wrath in the same year as John VI's impoverished coronation. The population, once the largest in Europe, shrank to less than a hundred thousand.
“That same year, as if in awful portent of divine wrath, the Black Death struck the city,”
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