Headlines in history the 1300s
Describes the politics, government, religion and philosophy, issues, class structure, daily life, and major figures and events in fourteenth-century Europe; and explores non-western empires and dynasties.
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San Diego, CA
Greenhaven press
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1
- Battle of Bannockburn: Scots defeat the english
- Women, land, and inheritance in england
- Crime
- Trade and the hanseatic league
- Victory at sea
- Anti-semitism in Spain
- Deposing King Richard
- Great schism
- Chapter 2
- Nobles
- Court life
- Serfs
- Peasants in the hundred years' war
- Wat Tyler's rebellion of 1381
- Chapter 3
- Famine of 1315-1322
- Childhood in the fourteenth century
- Catherine of Siena
- Medieval play
- Food in the fourteenth century
- Petrarch
- Religious thought in the fourteenth century
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Religious life
- Chapter 4
- Plague and the decameron
- Medicine and the plague
- Long-term effects of the plague on society
- Chapter 5
- Tensions in Japan
- Tughluq dynasty in India
- Ibn Battuta
- Rise of the Ottomans
- Timur
- Aztec empire
- Chapter 6
- Mansa musa and the magnificence of Mali
- Life and government in Mali
- Chapter 7
- Establishment of the ming dynasty
- Early ming wars and successions
- Trade in early ming times.