Chapter 11 Flashcards
Great famine
A terrible famine in 1315 -1322 that hit much of Europe after a period of climate change
Black Death
Plague that first struck Europe in 1347 and killed perhaps one third of the population
Flagellants
People who believe that the plague was God’s punishment for sin and sought to do penance by flagellating (whipping) themselves
Hundred years war
A war between England and France from 1337 to 1453, with political and economic causes and consequences
Representative assemblies
Deliberate meetings of the Lord and wealthy urban residents without flourished in many European countries between 1250 and 1450
Babylonian captivity
The period from 1309 to 1376 when the Pope’s resided in Avignon rather than in Rome. The phrase refers to the 70 years when the Hebrews were held captive in Babylon
Great Schism
The divisions or split, in church leadership from 1378 to 1417 when there or two, then three, popes
Conciliarists
People who believed that the authority in the Roman church should rest in a general counsel composed of clergy, theologians, and lay people, rather than in the Pope alone.
Confraternities
Volunteer array groups organized by occupation, devotional preference, neighborhood, or charitable activity.
Jacquerie
A massive uprising by French peasants in 1358 protesting heavy taxation
English peasants’ revolt
Revolt by English peasants in 1381 in response to changing economic conditions
Statue of Kilkenny
a lot shoot in 1366 that discriminated against the Irish, forbidding marriage between the English and the Irish, requiring the use of the English language, and the nine the Irish access to ecclesiastical offices.
