Crisis and Disintegration in the 14th Century

I. Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis
  A. Famine and Population
  B. Black Death
   i. Yersinium Pestis
   ii. Mongol Migrations
   iii. Devastation and Depopulation
   iv. Reactions to the Plague
   v. Flagellants
   vi. Anti-Semitism
  C. Economic Dislocation and Social Upheaval
   i. Noble Landlords and Peasants
   ii. Rural Revolts
   iii. Jacquerie in France
   iv. Peasants’ Revolt in England
   v. City Revolts

II. War and Political Instability
  A. Causes of the Hundred Years’ War
   i. English King’s Claim to France
   ii. Seizure of Gascony by the French Crown
  B. Conduct and Course of the War
   i. English Bowmen Defeat French at Crecy
   ii. French King Captured at Poitiers
   iii. English Victory at Agincourt
   iv. Joan of Arc
  C. Political Instability
   i. Noble Factions
   ii. Lack of Royal Male Heirs
   iii. Monarchical Insolvency
  D. Growth of England’s Political Institutions
   i. Parliament: Lords and Commons
   ii. Splintered Royal Families
  E. Problems of the French Kings
   i. Absence of National Unity
   ii.Taxation
   iii. Insanity of Charles VI
  F. German Monarchy
   ii. Breakup of the Empire
   iii. Electoral System
  G. States of Italy: Milan, Florence, and Venice