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“The Plague’s Place in History” “The pestilence deeply affected individual and family behavior and consciousness. It put severe strains on the social, political and economic systems…Nothing like this had happened before or since in the recorded history of mankind and the men and women of the fourteenth century would never be the same” (Norman F. Cantor). General scientific opinion is that, among other very deadly diseases like H.I.V. and the West …

…plateau unimaginable to the puny doors of human comprehension? We will never know. With that to ponder I will leave you with one final thought. There is an old saying that “God never shuts a door without opening a window.” In the case of the plague, God slammed the door on what we now think of as the dark ages and opened the window in hopes that we might someday arrive at a better tomorrow.