Crisis of the Later Middle Ages Ch12 Study & Review
Questions
What were the causes of the population decline that began in the
early 14C (1300s)?
1.
2.
What was the source of the Bubonic plague (the Black Death) & why
did it spread so rapidly in Europe?
3.
Describe the disease. How many people did it kill? How often
did it recur? How did the Europeans try to deal with it?
4.
What were the effects of the plague on the Church? The economy?
Society? Psychology? Education, art, & literature?
5.
What were the causes of the Hundred Years’ War?
course of the war.
6.
Why did people support their kings in war?
7.
What were the results of the 100 Years’ War?
winners & losers in each country?
8.
How did the Babylonian Captivity & the Great Schism weaken the
church?
9.
What was the conciliar movement & who were its advocates?
this a revolutionary idea?
10.
Why was Wyclif (Wycliffe) a threat to the institutional church?
11.
What was fur-collar crime & why did it occur?
12.
Describe marriage practices & parish life the late middle ages.
Did peasants’ lives improve or deteriorate in the 14C & 15C? In
what ways?
13.
What were the reasons for the French (1358) & English (1381)
Peasant Revolts?
14.
Why did conflict & frustration develop among guild members during
the 14C?
15.
Describe & explain the increase in ethnic/racial tensions in the
frontier areas of Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Identify the following:
vernacular literature
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Boccaccio’s Decameron (NIB)
Lollards
Marsiglio of Padua
Describe the
Who were the
Council of Constance
Martin V
Wars of the Roses (NIB)
Joan of Arc
Nationalism
Jacquerie
Was