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Recommended Primary Sources

• Johannes of Trokelowe: The Famine of 1315
• Jean Froissart: On the Jacquerie, 1358
• A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, c. 1550

Economic and Social Misery

Texts:

• Documents on the Black Death and the Jews, 1348-1349
• Anonimalle Chronicle: English Peasants' Revolt, 1381

Images:

• Jews Wearing the Roule

Imperial Papacy Besieged

Texts:

• Petrarch: Letter Criticizing the Avignon Papacy
• Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals, 1378
• The University of Paris and the Schism, 1393
• Council of Constance: Sacrosancta, 1415
• Marsilius of Padua: Defensor Pacis, 1324
• Pope Gregory XI: The Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382 and Wycliffe's Reply, 1384
• Jan Hus: Final Declaration, 1415

Images:

• Avignon, Palace of the Popes
• Avignon, West Facade

More Destruction: The Hundred Years' War, 1337 - 1453

Texts:

• Documents On The Hundred Years' War in the High Court of Parlement
• Jean Froissart: On the Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453
• Treaty of Troyes, 1420 and Condition in France, 1422
• Johann Nider: On Joan of Arc
• The Ballad of Bosworth Field

Images:

• The Battle of Crecy
• Joan of Arc at the Stake

Responses to Disaster and Despair

Texts:

• Dante: Inferno XIX
• Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Prologue

Image:

• Boccaccio

Empires in the East

Texts:

• The Tartars, 1243
• Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay, c. 1300
• Filofei: Moscow, the Third Rome

Images:

• Mongol Archer
• Map of the Mongol Empire
• Map of the Growth of the Ottoman Empire from the Early 14th ct. to 1512
• Serbs Fighting Turks