Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the English Peasant Revolt of 1381
Friday, June 5, 2020 - 10:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
As a professor of medieval Europe, I've taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt of 1381. Now that America is experiencing widespread unrest in the midst of its own pandemic, I see some interesting similarities to the 14th-century uprising.