The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century (Chapter 11)

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The Later Middle AgesCrisis and Disintegration
in the Fourteenth Century(Chapter 11)

• Dr. Matthews Western Civilization to 1648

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Timeline
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A Time of Troubles Black Death and Social Crisis

• Little Ice Age
• Small drop in average temperatures
• Famine
• Heavy rain (1315 1317) led to food shortages
• Population growth up to 1300 put pressure on food
  supply

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The Black Death

• Most devastating natural disaster in European
  History
• Bubonic Plague
• Rats and Fleas
• Yersinia Pestis
• Spread of the Plague
• Originated in Asia
• Arrived in Europe in 1347
• Mortality reached 50 60 percent in some areas
• Wiped out between 25 50 percent of European
  population (19 38 million dead in four years)
• Plague returns in 1361 1362 and 1369

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Map 11.1 Spread of the Black Death
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Life and Death Reactions to the Plague

• Plague as a punishment from God
• The flagellants
• Attacks against Jews
• Violence

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Economic Dislocation and Social Upheaval

• Labor Shortage Falling prices for agricultural
  products Drop in aristocratic incomes
• Statute of Laborers (1351) sought to limit wages
• Social Mobility
• Peasant Revolts
• Jacquerie in France (1358)
• English Peasants Revolt (1381)
• Revolts in the Cities
• Ciompi Revolt in Florence (1378)

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Chart 11.1 Background to the Hundred Years War
Kings of France and England
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The Hundred Years War

• Causes
• Entanglement of French and English royal families
• King Edward III (1327 1377) claims French crown
• French seize duchy of Gascony (1337) sparking war
• Conduct and Course of the War
• Differences in the armies
• Battle of Crecy (1346)
• Henry V (1413 1422)
• Battle of Agincourt (1415)
• Charles the Dauphin (heir to the French throne)
• Joan of Arc (1412 1431)
• Siege of Orleans
• Captured by allies of the English in 1430
• Burned at the stake (1431)
• Gunpowder
• War ends with French victory (1453)

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Map 11.2 The Hundred Years War
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Political Instability

• Breakdown of Feudal Institutions
• Scutage
• New Royal Dynasties
• Financial Problems
• Parliaments gain power

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The Growth of Englands Political Institutions

• Edward III (1327 1377)
• Parliament
• House of Lords
• House of Commons
• Richard II (1377 1399)
• Aristocratic factionalism
• Henry IV (1399 1413)
• Deposed Richard II

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The Problems of the French Kings

• Weakness of the French Monarchy
• Estates-General
• 1357 meeting
• Charles VI (1380 1422)
• Competition between the dukes of Burgundy and
  Orléans to control Charles

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Germany Italy

• The German Monarchy
• Breakup of the Holy Roman Empire
• Hundreds of States
• Elective Monarchy
• The Golden Bull (1356)
• Weak kings

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The States of Italy

• The States of Italy
• Lack of centralized authority
• Republicanism to Tyranny
• Development of regional states
• Milan
• Florence
• Venice

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The Ponte Vecchio Venice
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The Decline of the Church

• Boniface VIII and the Conflict with the State
• Boniface VIII (1294 1303)
• Conflict with Philip the Fair of France
• Unam Sanctam (1302)
• Captured by French at Anagni
• Clement V (1305 1314)
• The Papacy at Avignon (1305 1377)
• Stay at Avignon leads to a decline in papal
  prestige
• Captives of the French monarchy
• New sources of revenue
• Catherine of Siena (c. 1347 1380)

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Bridge at Avignon The City of the Popes
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The Great Schism

• Papacy returns to Rome in 1378
• Rival popes elected
• Pope Urban VI
• Pope Clement VII
• The Great Schism divides Europe
• Calls for systematic reform
• Marsiglio of Padua (c. 1270 1342), Defender of
  the Peace
• Conciliarism
• Council of Pisa (1409)
• Deposed both popes and elected a new pope
• Popes refuse to step down
• Results in three popes
• Council of Constance (1414 1418)
• End of the Schism
• Pope Martin V (1417 1431)

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Popular Religion

• Trends
• Mechanical paths to salvation
• Mysticism and Lay Piety
• Meister Eckhart (1260 1327)
• Modern Devotion
• Gerard Groote (1340 1384) and the Brothers of
  the Common Life
• Unique Female Mystical Experiences

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Changes in Theology

• Challenges to Scholastic Thought
• William of Occam (1285 1329)
• Nominalism
• Consequences of Williams ideas

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The Development of Vernacular Literature and New
Directions in Art

• Dante (1265 1321)
• The Divine Comedy
• Petrarch (1304 1374)
• Sonnets
• Boccaccio (1313 1375)
• Decameron
• Chaucer (c. 1340 1400)
• The Canterbury Tales
• Christine de Pizan (c. 1364 1430)
• The Book of the City of Ladies
• Art and the Black Death
• Giotto (1266 1337)
• Morbidity of late fourteenth-century art

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Giotto, Lamentation
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Change Invention

• Changes in Urban Life
• Greater Regulation
• Marriage
• Gender Roles
• Male active and domineering
• Women passive and submissive
• Medieval children
• New Directions in Medicine
• Hierarchy
• Trends
• Inventions and New Patterns
• The mechanical clock
• New conception of time
• Gunpowder and cannons

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A Medical Textbook
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Mechanical Clock in the Prague Town Hall