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Europe’s Population YearPopulation 100038 million 110048 million 120059 million 130070 million 134775 million 135250 million Source: www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Plague.html.

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2 Europe’s Population YearPopulation 100038 million 110048 million 120059 million 130070 million 134775 million 135250 million Source: www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Plague.html www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Plague.html During the Late Middle Ages

3 http://www.davidmiles.net The Four Horsemen Revelation 6

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5 The 14 th Century All of the following were occurring during the fourteenth century: Famine Black Death Hundred Years’ War Peasant Revolts

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7 Great Famine (1315-1322) “Little Ice Age” Food Shortage – Speculators Excommunicaton – Price Controls Unsuccessful

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9 Bubonic/Pneumonic Plague (a.k.a. “Black Death”) c. 1340s 40% of population dead? A “Beak Doctor” AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

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11 Bubonic Plague The Aftermath A “golden age” for workers? – Supply and Demand – Labor Shortage

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13 Hundred Years’ War 1337-1453 (on and off) England vs. France New Weapons – Pike – English Longbow – Battle of Crecy Battle of Crecy The “End of Chivalry” – Battle of Agincourt Battle of Agincourt The “Two Finger Salute” Decline of Feudalism

14 “War is Hell.” -- William T. Sherman, 1879

15 Chivalry The Warrior Code of the Middle Ages Rich man’s war… Rich man’s fight!

16 Sir Bors’ Dilemma

17 Battle of Crécy (1346) The “End of Chivalry” Edward III King of England Outnumbered 3-1? PRIMARY SOURCE: Froissart’s Chronicles [Excerpt]Froissart’s Chronicles

18 Battle of Agincourt (1415) Henry V King of England Outnumbered 3-1?

19 Battle of Agincourt (1415) “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage” -- Shakespeare, Henry V (Act III, Scene I) Henry V King of England Outnumbered 3-1?

20 KEY: English French English Allies

21 Joan of Arc 1412-1431 French Peasant / Mystic National Hero TURNING POINT – Of Hundred Years’ War Heretic and Saint

22 Change Over Time … Joan interrogated in her prison cell by Cardinal Winchester. By Hippolyte Delaroche, 1824, Musée des Beaux- Arts, Rouen, France. Hippolyte DelarocheMusée des Beaux- Arts Joan of Arc became a popular figure in art in the 19 th century – for more paintings, see Joan’s Wikipedia page.Wikipedia

23 Nationalism

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25 English Peasants’ Revolt (1381) PRIMARY SOURCE: Froissart’s Chronicles [Excerpt]Froissart’s Chronicles

26 English Peasants’ Revolt (1381) Wat Tyler – Leader – Murdered by London Mayor Unsuccessful, BUT – Decline of serfdom in England Wat Tyler or St. Paul?

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