The Late Middle Ages (c.1350-1500) provides us with many of our stock, childhood images of the "Middle Ages" the knight in shining armour, the joust, lords and ladies dressed in rich, voluminous robes and elegant dresses. Yet it is a paradox, for at the start of the period, Europe had endured the worst pandemic of recorded history: the Black Death, the climate was rapidly cooling, causing massive crop failures, and France and England were locked in...
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