Europe’s late medieval crisis had contested causes but clear contraction effects

Evidence

In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order-on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters-where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they can be, as free as they may be, as masterly as they can be. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 860 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fourteenth-century crises determined which bourgeoisies would create global capitalism; Famines, plague, war, and rebellion leveled Europe’s most developed bourgeois regions — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 162; Chronological periodization distorts the meaning of historical processes. (+1 more)

Related

• Famines, plague, war, and rebellion leveled Europe’s most developed bourgeois regions (similarity 0.83)
• Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods (similarity 0.82)
• Fourteenth-century crises determined which bourgeoisies would create global capitalism (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Chronological periodization distorts the meaning of historical processes. #complicates (0.55)
• Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods #complicates (0.50) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 860