[SoCal Pubbie]

Yes, I read about that. Also the belief that the disease was airborne caused "doctors" to recommend hanging heavy window coverings as a precaution, and there was a boom in the market for tapestries!

[Burkeman1]

The Pope at the tme of the Black Death had some crazy doctor that told him to always have torches and large fires burning around him to ward of the plague. He followed the docs advice even during the hot summer months and he lived. Then again no Germ could get to him being surrounded by fires.

The social mobility after the black death was tremondous especially in England. A third of the population is dead. Entire villages gone and fertile A rate land available at rock bottom prices but with the same amount of coinage in circulation! The years after the plaugue have been described as ones of glutonous hedonism.