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The working people, particularly skilled labourers in Europe who survived the Black Death are often said to have largely benefited from the die off, mostly at the expense of the nobility How much upward social mobility was there really? Did it last more than a generation or two?

by /u/Athenianstrangler in /r/AskHistorians

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