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The Europeans 1066-1450. 1066 conquered by Duke William of Normandy (France) Impact French language and culture dominant. The Europeans 1066-1450. 1066 conquered by Duke William of Normandy (France) Impact Feudalism. The Europeans 1066-1450. The Europeans 1066-1450.
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The Europeans 1066-1450 • 1066 conquered by Duke William of Normandy (France) • Impact • French language and culture dominant
The Europeans 1066-1450 • 1066 conquered by Duke William of Normandy (France) • Impact • Feudalism
Black Death, 1348–1350 • Precursor: overpopulation & malnutrition • agricultural improvements increase food supply; European population doubles, 1000–1300, thereafter outstripping food production
Black Death, 1348–1350 • Precursor: overpopulation & malnutrition • 1315–1317: crop failures produce worst famine of Middle Ages • The Little Ice Age
Black Death, 1348–1350 • Causes • Trade • Bubonic plague (“Black Death”) followed trade routes from Asia into Europe, probably via fleas on rats from Black Sea area
Black Death, 1348–1350 Map 9–1 SPREAD OF THE BLACK DEATH Apparently introduced by seaborne rats from Black Sea areas where plague-infested rodents had long been known, the Black Death brought huge human, social, and economic consequences. One of the lower estimates of Europeans dying is 25 million. The map charts the plague’s spread in the mid-fourteenth century. Generally following trade routes, the plague reached Scandinavia by 1350, and some believe it then went on to Iceland and even Greenland. Areas off the main trade routes were largely spared.
Black Death, 1348–1350 • popular remedies: relevant medical knowledge absent • promiscuity & abandon • flight & seclusion • temperance & moderation • self-flagellation • Medicine • aromatic amulets
Black Death, 1348–1350 • Causes • Jews • Scapegoats • Blamed for poisoning wells and spreading the plague • Financial gain also an important motive in killing Jews
Black Death (cont.) • Economic consequences: • dramatic labor shortage, climbing wages for laborers & artisans • falling agricultural, climbing luxury prices—noble landowners hardest hit • attempts to freeze wages & force peasants to stay on land peasant revolts
Black Death (cont.) • Political/social consequences: • Revolts in the cities • artisan guilds win some political power • kings take advantage of weakened nobility & church
Reaction to the PlagueThe Triumph of Deathby Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) • English king Edward III’s claim on French throne, thwarted by accession of first Valois king, Philip VI (r. 1328–1350)
Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) • Larger cause: English-French territorial, commercial, & cultural rivalry
Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) • French weakness: larger & wealthier, but more internal discord
Hundred Years’ War (cont.) The ‘dagger’ pointing at the ‘heart’ of England! • First phase (under Edward III) • Flanders allies with England, recognizing Edward as king of France, 1340 • Battle of Crecy • The English seize Calais, 1346 • English rout near Poitiers, 1356; French king John II taken captive • 1360 treaty: John II ransomed, English claims in France recognized, Edward renounces claim to French throne Calais
Hundred Years’ War (cont.) • Second phase (Treaty of Troyes) • English war effort flags due to peasant revolts • recommences with English victory at Agincourt, 1415 • Duchy of Burgundy joins English • Treaty of Troyes, 1420: named English Henry V successor to French Charles VI, but both soon die
Hundred Years’ War (cont.) • Third phase (Joan of Arc) • French teenage peasant Joan of Arc declares call from God to deliver besieged Orléans from English • Tired English repulsed, followed by string of French victories • Joan captured 1430, tried & burned as heretic at English-held Rouen • English forced back, conclude war with Calais as only French possession (1453) • Summary: 68 years of peace, 44 years of war; France devastated, but national feeling awakened; English & French peasants suffer most from taxes & services
Late Medieval Church • Papal monarchy (plentitude of power) established by Pope Innocent III strengthened the church politically, but weakened it spiritually—undermined popular support • Demise of Hohenstaufens took away galvanizing enemy of church, made it vulnerable • Innocent’s successor’s: tightened & centralized church legal proceedings; elaborated clerical taxation; broadened papal powers of appointment
Boniface VIII (r. 1294–1303) vs. Philip the Fair (r. 1285–1314) • French & English kings raise taxes on clergy; Boniface decrees new taxes need papal consent • French king Philip the Fair cuts off flow of money to Rome; Boniface concedes • Boniface issues Unam Sanctam (1302), as confrontation with Philip ramps up, asserting subordination of temporal to spiritual power • French army assault & molest Boniface, who later dies • Result: popes never again seriously threaten European rulers
Avignon Papacy (1309–1377) • Pope Clement V moves papal court here to escape strife of Rome • To get needed revenue, papal taxes go up, and sale of indulgences begins • Pope John XXII (r. 1316–1334)—most powerful Avignon pope
John Wycliffe (d. 1384) and John Huss (d. 1415) • Lollards: followers of Wycliffe, English spokesman for rights of royalty against popes; challenged indulgences, papal infallibility, transubstantiation—anticipates Protestantism • Hussites: followers of Huss, rector of University of Prague—similar to Lollards
Great Schism (1378–1417) • Urban VI and Clement VII—rival popes; England & allies support Urban, France & allies support Clement • Conciliar Theory: idea that a representative council could regulate actions of pope • Council of Pisa (1409–1410): deposed Urban & Clement (who refused to step down), elected Alexander V—three contending popes
Great Schism (1378–1417) • Council of Constance (1414–1417): provides for regular councils every few years • Council of Basel (1431–1449): height of conciliar government of church; negotiated directly with heretics (Hussites) • results of conciliar movement: greater religious responsibility to laity & secular governments