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Background of the Middle Ages and the Black Plague

Background of the Middle Ages and the Black Plague. Early Middle Ages : 500 – 1000 High Middle Ages : 1000 – 1250 Late Middle Ages : 1250. What’s going on here?. Charlemagne’s Empire. Feudalism. A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and military service. Feudalism.

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Background of the Middle Ages and the Black Plague

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  1. Background of the Middle Ages and the Black Plague

  2. Early Middle Ages: 500 – 1000 High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250 Late Middle Ages: 1250

  3. What’s going on here?

  4. Charlemagne’s Empire

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

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

  7. The Medieval Manor

  8. Gothic Cathedrals

  9. Magna Carta--1215 • 1. King John was mean to his people. He raised taxes, but the nobles revolted. • 2. Nobles got basic rights guaranteed. (Due process of the law: Right to a jury trial and protection under of the law)

  10. Spread of the Plague

  11. 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

  12. 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%. • People reacted in varying ways: indulgent living, abandoning cities, extreme behavior. • Pogroms were attacks against which group of people?

  13. Some wore amulets to protect themselves…

  14. 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) • 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

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