While this search doesn’t show it, M/M and multi-M pairings make what I would say is the majority of pairings on this site lol.

And to be fair, Europe thrived a lot more after the plague, since massive labour shortages meant the value of labour shot up dramatically, improving the quality of life and culminating in the Renaissance.

I shan’t claim this person to be reasonable, but u believe this is what he’ their referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor?wprov=sfti1

This wasn’t correct even before then lol.

Royalty would marry for diplomacy, whether externally to other royalty, or internally with powerful nobility.