The Calamitous Fourteenth

Century

Famine, War, Plague and Death

Key Terms

Yersinia pestis Plague

– Bubonic– Septicemic– pneumonic

Buboes on Medieval and Modern Plague Victims

Spread of Plague in Asia

Immediate Aftermath

Decline in rituals for the dead

Mass burials

Key Terms

Statute of Labours– Peasants’ revolts

Jacquerie (1358)England (1381)The Harelle (1382)

Three Living and Three Dead Danse of Death Transi Tombs

Wharram Percy

Medieval Flagellants

Dance of Death

Preoccupation with Death

Key Terms

Edward III of England (r. 1327-1377) Philip VI of France (r. 1328-1350) Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422)

– Treaty of Troyes (1420) Henry VI of England (r. 1422-1461,

1470-1471) Charles VII of France (r. 1422-1461) Burgundians

Key Terms

Joan of Arc (1412-1431) Battle of Crecy (1346) Battle of Agincourt (1415)

English Claims in France, ca 1150

War Transformed