Jiang argues that fourteenth-century crisis erodes church legitimacy because famine, war, plague, and climate disaster make people read catastrophe as punishment for Christian sin.
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Little ICE AGE
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...bad things start to happen in Europe. Okay? So the Little Ice Age begins. Then you have the Great Famine. Then you have more..."
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"...change over time. So starting in the year 1303, the Little Ice Age begins. Basically, it rains every day. And it's very cold. So..."
"This leads to something called the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317, all right? And then this will lead to something called the Hundred..."
"...bad things start to happen in Europe. Okay? So the Little Ice Age begins. Then you have the Great Famine. Then you have more..."
"...each time you have climate change um basically called like little ice ages you have tremendous social upheaval you have tremendous migration you have..."
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