Death, Revolt, and Schism

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Economic Recession of the Fourteenth Century

Previous examples: Cologne, Siena

The Black Death

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Map showing the spread of the Black Death by Year

Fresco in Palermo

 

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Plague Bacillus = Yersinia pestis

rattus rattus = Black Rat

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pulex irritans = Flea

 The Plague began to spread from Black Sea

Check out Elaina Satti's Pages on the Black Death
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Messina, Sicily

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Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, Introduction

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Agnolo di Tura del Grasso, Merchant of Siena

Revolt and Revolution  


Map Showing the intensity of the Plague 1246-1253 as well as the Peasant and Urban Revolts of the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century

Peasant Revolts France: Jacquerie (1358)
 

England: Peasants' Rebellion (1381)

King Richard II (1377-1399)

John Ball's Sermon
Urban Revolts Italy: Florence Ciompi (1378)