Fireatwill said: It could just be that records from Poland during Plague is lost or it was not well-documented there.



Other reasons could be lower population count, distance between settlements which made infection rate slower etc.. Click to expand...

Those are all obvious things to think about but don't seem to apply - Poland had no way as low or scarce population as Scandinavia or Russia, nor were the settlements as far away. Regions with much lower and scarcer population, as well as more distant settlements were hit harder than Poland. On all those indicators Poland was the same or even better than regions such as the Balkans or Ukraine, yet they suffered and Poland didn't. Also, there are no reasons to think Poland had worse records and information accumulation than the rest of central Europe, and definitely better than the regions to the East. Modern historians can just as accurately claim Poland was not hit as hard by the Plague as they can say that the rest of Europe was. The mystery is that Poland was not unique in any way - population, settlements, trade, geography, climate, culture, traditions, economy etc. were all standard of its time and had equivalents in other states in Europe that were hard hit by the plague.