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LECTURE:
LATE MEDIEVAL CRISIS

Climate change

• famine
  • 1996 book on the Great Famine
  • document: Famine of 1315
• Black Death
  • The flea and the rat
  • Map
  • Italian document: Ordinance for Sanitation
  • Document: Boccaccio: The Decameron

Peasant Revolts

• labor shortage
• rising expectations
• document: Jean Froissart on the Jacquerie, 1358
• document: English Peasants' Revolt, 1381

Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

• Timeline map
• English victories:
  Battle of Crécy
• French nationalism:
  Joan of Arc
  Document: Joan of Arc's Trial Testimony
• The Game

Decline of Church prestige

• Babylonian Capitivity (1309-77) Clement V
• Great Schism (1377-1414)

Popular Piety

• mechanical piety
• Ave Maria
• mysticism: Catherine of Siena
• Life
• Workbook Document: Dialogue

Philosophy: William of Ockham

• emphasis on reason
• "Ockham's Razor"

Artistic trends

• Hans Holbein: Dance of Death
  Document: Dance of Death
• Literature: Boccaccio
• Introduction to the Decameron (definition: Decameron )
• Decameron Web

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