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Economic and Social Misery

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Imperial Papacy Besieged

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  • Petrarch: Letter Criticizing the Avignon Papacy
  • Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals
  • The Great Schism: University of Paris and the Schism
  • Council of Constance: Decree Sacrosancta
  • Marsiglio of Padua: Defensor Pacis: Selections from Text
  • John Wycliffe: The Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382 and Wycliffe's Reply, 1384
  • Jan Hus: Final Declaration

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    More Destruction: The Hundred Years’ War, 1337 – 1453

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  • The Hundred Years War In The High Court of Parlement]
  • Jean Froissart: Battles of Crecy
  • Hundred Years War: Treaty of Troyes, 1420 and Conditions in France in 1422
  • Johann Nider: On Joan of Arc
  • Anonymous: The Ballad of Bosworth Field

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    Responses to Disaster and Despair

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  • Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy: Inferno XIX
  • Geoffrey Chauce: Canterbury Tales: The Prologue

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    Empires in the East

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  • Description of the Tartars
  • Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay
  • The Fall of Constantinople 1453
  • A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
  • Filofei: Moscow as the Third Rome

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