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ccommack ([personal profile] ccommack) wrote in [personal profile] pktechgirlbackup 2011-01-31 02:16 am (UTC)

I'd be interested in whether the disease paradox hypothesis the book presents is about disease in general, or the bubonic plague in particular. I'm familiar with the theory that the initial wave of the Black Death kick-started the Renaissance, by concentrating dispersed capital ownership, but the idea that the abysmal hygiene in European cities in normal times was a demographic asset is a new one to me.

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