Medieval university

A dark and deadly disease swept across Europe, parts of China and the Middle East during the medieval times. Also known as the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death was a tragic and confusing sickness for those living in the infested areas. It was so tragic, that a new era had begun after the last phase of the disease, and was the reason of evolution. The effects of the Bubonic Plague led to a new era due to the fact of population decline, economical issues and finding a new meaning to life. The…

The Bubonic plague was a horrific time in history. The Plague took Europe by storm. It started December 31st, 1347(Source: Plague Map). People were dying all throughout Europe. Just about 23 million died between the years 1345 and 1400(Source: http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Black_De.htm) . The physicians at the time died or they would over price just to inspect the ill. People abandoned their families and let the die alone. (Source: Marchione di Coppo). Everyone accusing innocent people for…

The Feudal System has been in existence since mankind was born although kingdoms in the middle ages were most known for it. It is a social and political structure for a governed body of people. A feudal system consisted of four classes of people. The peasants were the lowest on the totem pole. Often peasants consisted of slaves and poor people that worked in the fields for a place to stay and food to eat. The lords governed the peasants and the peasants gave them labor as a service. Knights…

context of "real life" medieval marriages. When I think of courtly love I think of “Romeo and Juliet”, Romeo went to Juliet’s window at night, climbed up the wall just to be with her because the Caplets and the Montague families did not get along. They had a feud amongst their families, but that never stopped Romeo and Juliet from pursuing their love for one another.…

during their tournament. The concept of courtly love is also combined with the code of chivalry which forms the ideal medieval world of brave and elegant knights. One…

The Black Death stayed in London until the 1350’s wiping out an estimated third to a half of the population. Peasants from the country side saw this as an opportunity to live the privilege urban life style they’ve dreamed and migrated. Adding to the recent plague that wiped out a great percentage of peasant, it only adds up to a shortage of labourers already affecting landowners. The shortage of labours worked in favour of the peasants and many saw this a loophole to challenge the old feudal…

Feudalism was an intricate system that tied together loyalty, social classes, resources, land, giving, and getting. Each social class depended on each other and relied on the king to distribute land. The manor supported feudalism because the structure made people depend on one another, similar to feudalism. Farmers provided the feudal arrangement with a base of resources which were constantly replenished by the laborers. Feudalism had interconnected social classes so that people were dependent…

but uses the dramatics and details from the actual plague in England. He wanted to let the readers have a sense of what was going on over there and what the people were going through. As they read the chapters, he wanted them to put themselves in a medieval village and know what it would be like to have something so devastating as the plague happen. He went into exact detail of what the plague would do to people. “In men and women alike it first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain tumors…

The Black Death was a major epidemic of the bubonic plague that killed over one third of Eurasia’s population in the 1350s. Last year, I travelled to China, Italy, and England to find out how the Black Death impacted Eurasia during the 1300s. Throughout my journey, I investigated the Silk Road in China, the Orsanmichele church in Italy, and the Museum of London in England for clues that would help me discover the factors that made the Black Death one of the most devastating epidemics in human…

The Black Death was known as the “Great Mortality.” It happened in between the years of 1347 and 1350. The amount of lives lost during this pandemic suddenly stopped the economic expansion that spread throughout Europe and Islam (Smith et al. 478). The Black Death resulted in an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia. The black death not only affected the population it also affected the way the economy was set up. It affected trade and the all the ways that goods get from place to place.…