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A period of crisis? Growth in population of Europe, leading to overpopulation c Weather in Europe gets colder and wetter Famine and epidemics in Europe
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Bubonic plague - buboes
Septicaemic plague Pneumonic plague
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1347 Plague in Italy 1348 Plague in France 1349 Plague in England 1350 Plague throughout Europe. Further outbreaks follow
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1400 Population of Europe has halved
1665 Last outbreak of plague in England 1720 Last outbreak of plague in France Replacement of black rats by brown rats
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1345 Faculty of Medicine at the University of
Paris blames the plague on a planetary conjunction 1348 and 1349 massacres of Jews in Germany Oct 1349 Pope orders suppression of flagellants
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Treatises on the “Art of Dying”
Transitio/cadaver tombs Dance of Death/Danse Macabre
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1370s Wages rising due to reduced workforce
Sumptuary laws Attempts to limit wage increases Rebellion by peasants and urban workers in Flanders
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French peasant revolt (Jacquerie), 1358:
Additional causes: lack of protection of peasants from looters, taxes Origins at St Leu north of Paris, but spreads widely Bloodily suppressed
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English peasants’ rebellion, 1381:
Causes: Controls on wages and peasant mobility, poll tax Begins in Essex, spreads to Kent Peasants take Rochester Castle, Canterbury, march on London
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King Richard II (r. 1377-99) decides to negotiate
and agrees to end serfdom Rebels continue attacking royal officials Peasants demand that church property be divided among laity, abolition of feudal/manorial system, but in a scuffle Mayor Walworth kills Wat Tyler Rebels dispersed peacefully, but king revokes charters
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