Why Europe Makes Travelers Wait Forty Days
Medieval Europe

Why Europe Makes Travelers Wait Forty Days

A single city in northern Italy invented a procedure in 1374 that would save hundreds of millions of lives, and nobody outside the region noticed for sixty years.

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Medieval EuropeAdriaticPublic HealthPlagueRagusa DubrovnikDisease PreventionMaritime History14th Century

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