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19 Cards in this Set
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Little Ice Age |
In Northern Europe, severe weather that historical geographers label the "Little Ice Age" |
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Christine de Pisan |
Highly educated women who wrote prolifically in French, her native tongue. She wrote about the chaos of the Hundred Years War |
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Statute of Laborers |
The freezing of sacrifices and wages at pre- 1347 levels |
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Dance of Death |
An artistic motif of the 14th century, a dancing skeleton leading away a living person |
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Aquitaine |
France and England signed the treaty of Paris in which the king agree to become the vassal of the crown for the Duchy of Aquitaine as an ancient inheritance |
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Joan of Arc |
Lead the French to victory and success. This peasant girls visions an work revived French fortunes |
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Agnicourt |
English soldier-king Henry V gained the fell over superior numbers |
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Vernacular |
The language or dialects spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country |
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Dante Alighieri |
Held several positions in the city government in Florence, he called his work "comedy" because he wrote in Italian |
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Great Schism |
Divided western Christendom. England and Germany recognized Pope Urban VI, France recognized Clement VII. Brought the church into disrepute and awaked religious faith |
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Babylonian Captivity |
The seventy years that the ancient Hebrews were held captive in Mesopotamian Babylon |
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Pluralism |
Condition or system in which two or more states,groups,principles,sources or authority |
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House of Commons |
Knights and burgesses |
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John Wycliff |
Wrote that papal claims of temporal power had no foundation in the scriptures and that the scripture should be the standard of Christian belief, that everyone should read the Bible for themselves |
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Conciliar Movement |
Reform of the church led my concilliarists |
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Froncose of Florence |
A prostitute working in a brothel on Marseilles who made a will which made legacies various charities and left a large sum for a poor girl to marry |
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Merchet |
A fine to lord for a women's marriage since he stood to lose a worker |
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Jacquiere |
French taxation for the Hundred Years' War fell heavily on the poor, French peasantry exploded in a massive uprising |
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Fur collar Crime |
Nobles used their superior social status to rob and extort from the weak the to corrupt the judicial process stealing from both the rich and poor |
