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The Gates That Closed on Mothers: Why Medieval Cities Locked Out the Starving

During the Great Famine of 1315–1317, medieval European cities made a choice that official histories rarely mention. As food supplies collapsed, city councils closed their gates—not to armies, but to starving women and children from the countryside. This video examines how medieval urban governments used bureaucracy, documentation, and moral language to decide who deserved to live inside the walls—and who did not. Using city council records, court documents, parish letters, and famine chronicles, we uncover how widows, mothers, and unattached women were categorized, expelled, branded, imprisoned, or erased in the name of “civic order.” This is not a story of chaos or panic. It is a story of policy. By tracing how scarcity turned administration into a tool of exclusion, this video explores how systems justify cruelty through procedure—and how entire populations can disappear without being remembered. History does not only record what happened. It records what was allowed.