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CHAPTER REVIEW
Upon Reflection
Q What were the chief factors that led to the urban and rural revolts of the fourteenth century?
Q What were the causes of the Hundred Years’ War, and what were the results of the war
Key Terms
Black Death (p. 250) pogroms (p. 253) anti-Semitism (p. 253) scutage (p. 258)
Suggestions for Further Reading
GENERAL WORKS For a general introduction to the four- teenth century, see D. P. Waley and P. Denley, Later Medieval Europe, 3d ed. (London, 2001), and J. Aberth, From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages (London, 2001).
THE BLACK DEATH On the Black Death, see D. Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, ed. S. K. Cohn, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1997), and J. Kelly, The Great Mortality (New York, 2005).
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR Good accounts of the Hundred Years’ War include A. Curry, The Hundred Years’ War, 2d ed. (New York, 2004), and R. H. Neillands, The Hundred Years’ War, 2d ed. (New York, 2001). On Joan of Arc, see M. Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (New York, 1981).
POLITICAL HISTORY On the political history of the period, see B. Guenee, States and Rulers in Later Medieval Europe, trans. J. Vale (Oxford, 1985).
Notes
1. Quoted in H. S. Lucas, “The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316, and 1317,” Speculum 5 (1930): 359.
2. Quoted in Christos S. Bartsocas, “Two Fourteenth-Century Descriptions of the ‘Black Death,’” Journal of the History of Medicine (October 1966): 395.
3. Quoted in D. Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, ed. S. K. Cohn, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1997), p. 9.
4. J. Froissart, Chronicles, ed. and trans. G. Brereton (Harmondsworth, England, 1968), p. 111.
5. Ibid., p. 212.
6. Ibid., p. 89.
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in the fourteenth century for France and England?
Q What impact did the adversities of the fourteenth century have on the Catholic Church?
condottieri (p. 262) conciliarism (p. 265) Great Schism (p. 265)
CATHOLIC CHURCH A good general study of the church in the fourteenth century can be found in F. P. Oakley, The West- ern Church in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, N.Y, 1980). On late medieval religious practices, see R. N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215–1515 (Cambridge, 1995).
CULTURE A classic work on the life and thought of the later Middle Ages is J. Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages, trans. R. J. Payton and U. Mammitzsch (Chicago, 1996). On Dante, see B. Reynolds, Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man (London, 2006). The best work on Christine de Pizan is by C. C. Willard, Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works (New York, 1984).
SOCIAL HISTORY On women in the later Middle Ages, see S. Shahar, The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages, trans. C. Galai, rev. ed. (London, 2003). The im- portance of inventions is discussed in J. Gimpel, The Medieval Machine (New York, 1976).
7. Quoted in R. Coogan, Babylon on the Rh^one: A Translation of Letters by Dante, Petrarch, and Catherine of Siena (Washington, D.C., 1983), p. 115.
8. Dante, Divine Comedy, trans. D. Sayers (New York, 1962), “Paradise,” canto 33, line 145.
9. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. E. J. Richards (New York, 1982), pp. 83–84.
10. Quoted in S. Stuard, “Dominion of Gender: Women’s Fortunes in the High Middle Ages,” in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed. R. Bridenthal, C. Koonz, and S. Stuard, 2d ed. (Boston, 1987), p. 169.
11. Quoted in J. Gimpel, The Medieval Machine (New York, 1976), p. 168.
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