Chapter Outline

I. Economic Woes and Demographic Crisis 1300-1350 [TXT: Johannes of Trowkelowe: Annales: On the Famine of 1315.]

1. Population
2. The Onset of the Black Death [TXT: Boccaccio. The Plague from The Decameron][WEB: Discovery Online: The Black Death]
1. Spread [IMG: Death Triumphant]
2. Attacks on Jews [TXT: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE ][IMG: Spanish Jews, 14th Cent: Fresco with Jews Wearing the Roule. ]

3. The Recurring Threat of the Plague [IMG: Josse Lieferinxe, Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken (1497-99)]
4. Recovery in the Countryside
1. Resources
2. Revolts [TXT: Jean Froissart: The Jacquerie, 1358][TXT: Anonimalle Chronicle: Peasant Uprising of 1381]

5. Recovery in Towns and Cities
6. New Wars and Aristocracies

II. Late Medieval Christianity

1. Popes and Councils
1. Avignon [2ND: The Avignon Papacy][IMG: Avignon, Palace of the Popes | Avignon, West facade ][TXT: Petrarch: Letter Criticizing the Avignon Papacy]
2. The Schism [TXT: The Great Schism: Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals, 1378.]
3. The Conciliar Movement [TXT: The Council of Pisa Declares itself Competent to Judge Popes, 1409 ] [TXT: Council of Constance: Decree Sacrosancta, 1415 ]

2. Ordinary Christians in Search of Salvation
1. Indulgences

3. Extraordinary Christians in Search of Salvation
1. Mysticism

4. Search for Salvation and Achieving Heresy
1. Flagellants
2. Wycliffe and Lollards [TXT: The Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382 and Wycliffe's Reply, 1384]
3. Jan Hus [TXT: Jan Hus (1372/73-1415): Final Declaration, July 1, 1415 ]