…hundred year war ended then Giotto is painting meister Eckhart is writing William of Ockham is formulating his philosophy, tamerlane, Chaucer, Wycliffe, so forth and so on, right there. So this is the full flowering of the middle ages. What's happening here…

…catastrophe that has ever befallen western civilization. It occurred right there. If that isn't enough, Giotto, Tamerlane, meister Eckhart and Wycliffe were all active but I think it's this demographic body blow to Europe that created this plunge into novelty…