What makes 536 such a bad year? A global pandemic? A natural cataclysm? Merciless wars? Bloody revolutions?
536 is actually a nice mix of all of that. A particularly strong cocktail of catastrophes and instability.

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With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
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For further:
J. D. Gunn, The Years Without Summer; Tracing AD 536 and its Aftermath, British Archaeological Reports, 2000.
David Keys, Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization, Ballantine Books, 1999.
William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
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