On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:02:03 +0100, T.H. wrote:

> "Danijel Turina"  wrote in message
> news:gt1b7ix2agim$.1qufdd693jz4j$.dlg@40tude.net...
> 
>> U srednjem vijeku je prosjecan zivotni vijek bio ispod 18 godina.
> 
> Neka referenca, izvor podataka?

Mislim da je to prilicno poznat podatak, to sam zapamtio jos iz povijesti
iz osnovne skole. Ocekivani zivotni vijek je bio oko 36 godina (to je ono
sto je danas 70 godina) a prosjecni oko 17. Ova druga brojka je tako mala
zbog izuzetno visoke smrtnosti djece.

Recimo, iz jednog clanka na netu:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040513.bkchp0514/BNStory/SpecialEvents/

Dark Ages are horrible ordeals, incomparably worse than the temporary
amnesia sometimes experienced by stunned survivors of earthquakes, battles,
or bombing firestorms who abandon customary routines while they search for
other survivors, grieve, and grapple with their own urgent needs, and who
may forget the horrors they have witnessed, or try to. But later on, life
for survivors continues for the most part as before, after having been
suspended for the emergency.

During a Dark Age, the mass amnesia of survivors becomes permanent and
profound. The previous way of life slides into an abyss of forgetfulness,
almost as decisively as if it had not existed. Henri Pirenne, a great
twentieth-century Belgian economic and social historian, says that the
famous Dark Age which followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
reached its nadir some six centuries later, about 1000 c.e. Here, sketched
by two French historians, is the predicament of French peasantry in that
year:

The peasants...are half starved. The effects of chronic malnourishment are
conspicuous in the skeletons exhumed....The chafing of the
teeth...indicates a grass-eating people, rickets, and an overwhelming
preponderance of people who died young....Even for the minority that
survived infancy, the average life span did not exceed the age of
forty....Periodically the lack of food grows worse. For a year or two there
will be a great famine; the chroniclers described the graphic and horrible
episodes of this catastrophe, complacently and rather excessively conjuring
up people who eat dirt and sell human skin....There is little or no metal;
iron is reserved for weapons.

So much had been forgotten in the forgetful centuries: the Romans' use of
legumes in crop rotation to restore the soil; how to mine and smelt iron
and make and transport picks for miners, and hammers and anvils for smiths;
how to harvest honey from hollow-tile hives doubling as garden fences. In
districts where even slaves had been well clothed, most people wore filthy
rags.

Some three centuries after the Roman collapse, bubonic plague, hitherto
unknown in Europe, crept in from North Africa, where it was endemic, and
exploded into the first of many European bubonic plague epidemics. The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse, conventionally depicted as Famine, War,
Pestilence, and Death, had already been joined by a fifth demonic horseman,
Forgetfulness.

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