So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational damage is comparable. I’ve found a pretty good one...
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There is a lot of terrible history out there, especially depicting the middle ages as The Dark Ages, which the historical community has come back from. And there is no conclusive evidence suggesting they didn't value life.https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewgabriele/2019/01/06/children-in-the-middle-ages/ …
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I don’t know. Tuchman’s book is pretty modern and post the revision from naive dark age theories. The general idea of dynamics of family/societal life with lots of babies and high infant mortality rate squares with my experience. More children = much less investment per child.
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