 |  The Western Experience, 8/e Mortimer Chambers,
University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt,
Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb,
Princeton University
Isser Woloch,
Columbia University
Raymond Grew,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague
Chapter Overview| 1. Europeans suffered economic dislocations and demographic disasters in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
2. Europe suffered from depressions in trade and industry, but then recovered.
3. Economic, psychological, and social factors led the lower classes in rural and urban areas to revolt, adding to the upheaval of the period.
4. Wars, weakening central authority, and questions about royal succession reflected the considerable political instability of the period.
5. After the thirteenth century, the Byzantine Empire declined until it was finally overwhelmed by the expanding Ottoman Empire in 1453. |
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education