Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
12.The Black Death and Wycliff
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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This is a really superior episode as history. Only a couple cringey bits, it is getting better.
Torture is wrong, only the sophisticated torture. The future effects of the Black Death are different in England. Instead of doubling down on serfdom, in England, it ends. Also we get into church land confiscation with the destruction of the Knights Templar. A brief look at the expulsion of the Jews in the 1290's (England not the Spanish version). We look at the thought of Wycliff and the intellectual chain that leads to Hus and Martin Luther. The most consequential chain of influence in history?