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- Philip Ziegler’s The Black Death is the classic work on the subject.
- Boccaccio’s description of the Black Death in the Prologue of the Decameron
- Medieval account of the confrontation between Richard II and Wat Tyler during the English Peasants Revolt
- Desmond Seward’s The Hundred Years War may be the most readable account of the conflict. The most famous and dramatic retelling of the Battle of Agincourt is Shakespeare’s play Henry V.
- The Golden Bull of 1356
The Fourteenth-Century Crisis – Quiz
- England won all the major battles of the Hundred Years War thanks to the technology of the ___________.
- Identify at least two popular uprisings of the second half of the fourteenth century.
- The Golden Bull established the procedure by which the _______________ was elected.
- The period of global cooling that began in the early fourteenth century is known as the ______________.
- The prologue of Boccaccio’s ______________ gives one of the most famous descriptions of the effects of the Black Death.
- The “Black Death” was the name given to a form of the _______________ that swept Europe beginning in 1347.
- True/False: In the aftermath of the Black Death, landlords generally found themselves in a stronger position vis-à-vis their tenants because of the labor surplus.
- ___________ almost singlehandedly revived French fortunes in the years following the English victory at Agincourt.
- longbow
- Jacquerie, English Peasants Revolt, revolt of the ciompi in Florence
- Holy Roman Emperor
- Little Ice Age
- Decameron
- bubonic plague
- False
- Joan of Arc