The really big one (part 2)

Roving bands seek redemption, revenge and an end to the pestilence by shunning the Church, flogging themselves and killing their neighbors.

This post originally appeared on Substack. Missed part 1? It’s right here. Read this already? Here’s part 3, part 4 and part 5.

Flagellants and pogromists

The scholars of the University of Paris produced the officially accepted explanation for the plague in 1348: in Tuchman’s…