1. High and Late Middle Ages
Ch. 8
1050 – 1450 AD

2. Chapter 8, Section 5
A Time of Crisis

3. The Black Death Europe was already weak Effects Great Famine 1315-1317
Plague Comes From Asia 1347
Trade brings goods, ideas, and unfortunately rats!
Moves from Southern to Northern Europe
Effects
God’s Punishment?
Jews Blamed
Labor Shortages
Demand For Higher Wages
Inflation

4. Upheaval in the Church The Church In Trouble
The Plague kills many priests and monks
Church is unable to explain the Plague
The Schism
1309 Pope Clement V moves papal court to Avignon, France-weakens the church
France controls papacy for next 70 years
Popes live in luxury
Criticism leads to new Pope elected for Rome
1417 Council at Constance ends schism
Pope Martin V moves papacy to Rome permanently

5. Upheaval in the Church The Church Challenged
Corruption, Plague, Schism, and Skeptics weaken the Church authority
John Wycliffe of England
Calls for end of corruption
Translation of Bible to English
Calls for return to Biblical Truth
Burned at the stake
Laid the formation for the Protestant Reformation of the Church a hundred years from now

6. The Hundred Years War 1337-1453 The Cause
English claimed French lands, remember William the Conqueror?
Edward III of England starts conflict when he claims the French crown and tries to claim the Channel for France

7. The Hundred Years War 1337-1453 The Course
At first, England was winning
Better weapons; longbows
1429- THE MIRACLE OF JOAN OF ARC
Uncrowned French King Charles V believes Joan is sent by God
Many battles are won with her leading the army
Joan captured and burned at stake
Joan now a martyr leads to French rally to defeat the English

9. More Crisis, Almost Done!
The Consequences of Hundred Years War
France expands its power
French nationalism grows
English Parliament becomes more powerful than the king
Monarchs had to turn to them for money during the war
English turn to overseas trade
Castles and Knights Fall Out of Fashion
Can’t hold up to cannon fire and long bows
Vassals Replaced by Large Paid Armies
Medieval Age is Ending
Western Europe Recovers and Embraces a new age…………RENAISSANCE