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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Actually, it was pretty good for the survivors. Things were down for a while, but there is an argument that the economic surplus caused by the rapid population drop was one of the causes of the European Renaissance. There are a lot of historians who would argue (and have argued) that it was, in the long term, stimulative.
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You are talking about a very long term.
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Do you actually read history?
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Yes, and the near and mid-term effects were devastating. Which should be obvious.
ETA: Alternate answer: I like to get all my medieval history from
Ken Follett.
