1. Background of the Middle Ages and the Black Plague

2. Our focus is the Late Middle Ages Early Middle Ages: 500 – 1000 High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250 Late Middle Ages: 1250 Early Middle Ages: 500 – 1000 High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250 Late Middle Ages: 1250

3. What does Medieval mean, literally? Medieval Medium Aevum = Middle Agges

4. From where is absolute power derived today? In the Middle Ages? Watch the clip and find the answer! clip

5. What’s going on here?

6. Charlemagne’s Empire

7. FeudalismFeudalism A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and military service.

8. Feudalism A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and military service.

9. The Medieval Manor

10. Gothic Cathedrals

14. Spread of the Plague

15. Stages of the Plague Came to the continent from Sicily in 1347 Europe may have been susceptible due to what events in the 14th c? Bubonic plague (aka Yersinia pestis) was spread by what? Pneumonic plague was spread by coughing (making it far more deadly). Europe didn’t begin recovering until the 16th century

16. Results of the Plague (Impact on Society and Economy) Between one-quarter and one-third of Europe’s entire population was killed (up to 38 million). In some areas, the death toll reached 50%. (see what happened to the dead)see what happened to the dead People reacted in varying ways: indulgent living, abandoning cities, extreme behavior. Pogroms were attacks against which group of people? Where did said persecuted group go?

17. More Results Labor shortage in the aftermath of the plagues. Aristocracy lost money. Statute of Laborers (1351) : Limit Wages Social Mobility--Hastened the decline of serfdom (wage labor becomes more popular) Scutage? Peasant Revolts –Jacquerie in France (1358) Meux to the right. ---------> –English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)--Watt Tyler and John Ball against the poll tax and the nobility. Successful? Revolts in the Cities –Ciompi Revolt in Florence (1378)--short-lived success

18. Let’s talk about the possible essay question. 1) Explain the Black Death’s impact on the society and economy of Europe?