Timeline for AIDS vs Great Plague in medieval period
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| Jul 21, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | Mellester | There are lost of stories about nuns finding abounded orphans whilst going back home from a sabbatical. Abuses was there in the church even more then. | |
| S Jul 20, 2018 at 20:20 | history | suggested | Kat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
tidying grammar and spelling
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| S Jul 20, 2018 at 17:54 | history | suggested | derptank | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed minor typos
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| Jul 20, 2018 at 16:08 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | “and the deeply religious time restricted widespread… ‘extra curricular activities’” — oh honey. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 15:17 | comment | added | Richard | I think you're dramatically underestimating quite how many people in Medieval Europe (and Present-day Africa for that matter) visited prostitutes and brothels. Greater religiosity seems to mean you have to confess afterwards rather than not sinning in the first place. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | Julian Egner | while I disagree with the spread point, the spreading could simply be restricted by most people not travelling around. On the other hand, the non-existence of healthcare would lead to whitespreading - a simple fistfight between kids could be enough to spread the disease. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 11:12 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | As @AlexP points out this answer is based on misconceptions about the social norms of the day. Short version : shouldn't doesn't equate to didn't. Also HIV/AIDs attacks the immune system so it would have a devastating effect at a time when no technology existed to compensate. In addition to this people dealing with everyday (minor) wounds, births and so on would have been exposed to HIV and other diseases a great deal more than in a modern context. No sewers, for example, and a complete lack of understanding of hygiene makes a disease that affects the immune system extremely dangerous. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 10:43 | comment | added | AlexP | "The deeply religious time restricted widespread extra curricular activities": oh really? You may want to brush up on The Canterbury Tales (from England), The Decameron (from Italy), Gargantua (from France), and so on. "Extracurricular activities" were at as commonplace as today. I'm not saying that there were no monks who took their vows seriously, but most rich men and even several Popes had well-known concubines; for a taste of truly medieval "deep religiousity" look up the Saeculum Obscurum, also known as the age of Pornocracy. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 9:53 | comment | added | Blade Wraith | @L.Dutch Alas my friend... i didn;t even consider brothels... i shall try and remember to place my head into the gutter more often. Fair point well made | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 9:33 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | not so sure about the spread (see my answer) | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 9:30 | history | answered | Blade Wraith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |