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A New History of the Middle Ages with Dan Jones

Dan Snow's History Hit

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How Did Pandemic Change Your Thinking?

Pandemic changed the whole way that i wrote it. It made testimony of witnesses to things like the justinianic plague, suddenly far more credible than they might have been otherwise. I did have an idea that pandemic disease had played a very important part in the middle ages and was aware that it was likely to play a part in the 20 first century. The legacy of this epidemic is still there in the way people are interacting with each other today. That's such a transformative part of your thinking into the middle ages. You can't really write about the middle ages without the black death playing an enormous part in your thinking.

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