AP European History
The Late Middle Ages
(1300-1450)
Objectives
1. Evaluate the extent to which the 14th century (and early 15th) was “calamitous.”
2. Identify the demographic, economic, and social consequences of the climate change that Europe
experienced in the 14th century.
3. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Black Death.
4. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Hundred Years’ War.
5. Describe the challenges the Christian church faced in the 14th century, and how church leaders,
intellectuals, and ordinary people responded to them.
6. Explain how economic and social tensions contributed to peasant revolts, crime, violence, and a
growing sense of ethnic and national distinctions.
7. Evaluate the status of women in the 14th century.
8. Define vernacular literature, identify 14th-century authors of vernacular literature, and explain how
vernacular literature reflected social and political developments.
Terms and People
Great Famine (1315-1322)
Black Death
bubonic plague
flagellant
Hundred Years’ War (ca 1337-1453)
Treaty of Paris (1259)
King Philip VI of Valois (France)
King Edward III of England
Aquitaine
Battle of Crécy (1346)
Battle of Agincourt (1415)
siege of Orléans (1429)
Joan of Arc
English “Commons” (Parliament)
Avignon Papacy/Babylonian Captivity (1309-1376)
Pope Urban VI (1378-1389)
Pope (antipope) Clement VII (1378-1394)
Great Schism (1378-1417)
conciliarism
Marsiglio of Padua / Defensor Pacis
John Wyclif
Lollards
Jan Hus
Council of Constance (1414-1418)
confraternity
Thomas à Kempis / The Imitation of Christ
Jacquerie (1358)
English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
craft guild
fur-collar crime
Statue of Kilkenny (1366)
vernacular literature
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)/Divine Comedy
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)/Canterbury Tales