Richard III of England

(Gunnel p1). In England, the wages rose from 20 to 40 percent over a 20 year period after the pandemic, giving the peasants more power (Routt p1).There was no authority to control the rest of the population during the Plague and so the poor, sensing the freedom, disobeyed the laws set by the government. After the Black Death, the authorities of many European countries, afraid of losing power, started to pass laws to control the poor. For example, the Sumptuary Law (1363) in England decreed the…

The novel The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick portrays the early portion of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, spanning from 1137 to 1154 CE. Starting in January of 1137, the novel follows a young Eleanor after the death of her father, William X, Duke of Aquitaine. Subsequent to his death, Eleanor is set to inherit the kingdom of Aquitaine, and learns of an intended betrothal to Prince Louis VII of France. Faced with a new future, Eleanor marries Louis, and moves to Paris with her younger…

While Jews certainly did prosper in medieval western Christendom - in Spain, England, France and the Holy Roman Empire - it is arguable whether this occurred during times of true Christian persecution, for this phrase implies a coherent, general and importantly, state-backed, form of oppression, which did not exist until late in the period. Indeed, even though anti-semitism did exist, the two distinct phases of Jewish prosperity during the Middle Ages were marked rather with tolerance and…

Anglicization of queenship opens new issues that her non-English successors face that mirror Tristram and Lancelot’s internal dilemmas. The division between natural and marital family always underlined royal relationships, however no precedent in England allowed for a queen to come from her own country until Woodville. English familial power increases set up the internal Court struggles. The country that Henry brought out of the Wars of the Roses faced the reality that a King could now meet a…

bound themselves to wage war until United States fully secured its freedom and until both agreed to terms with Britain 5. Led the American Revolutionary War to become a world war The Colonial War Becomes a Wider War A. Lexington 1778 1. England and France come to blows 2. Shot fired widened into a global conflagration 3. Spain and Holland join the fray against Britain 4. Combined the Spanish and French Fleets outnumbered those of Britain B. French Support 1. From 1778 to…

The political structure of medieval England. The medieval period in English history – often termed the middle or dark ages - began c.400 AD and ended with the beginning of the Renaissance period in c.1400 AD (History.com). This period of English history is often defined as the dark ages due to a general lack of knowledge, due to the lack of writing from this period that survives and can be deciphered. The political and social structure of that time was that of feudalism. In this essay, I will…

exile in England and won the Presidency in a landslide victory. Immediately, Napoleon set to work at home, working on the infrastructure…

His playwrights specifically fit into one of these three categories for the sole purpose of encompassing individual themes into an overall arching category. Some of Shakespeare’s historic playwrights include: King John, Richard II and Richard III, and Pericles. He wrote several comedic plays such as: As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That’s Ends Well, and Merchant of Venice. His playwrights categorized as tragedies are perhaps the most adapted into films like his…

Shakespeare is known as the father of English literature and the National poet of England. Shakespeare was a literary genius before his time. He used language and emotions in such a way that it had a lasting effect on the telling and writing of love stories and tragedies. Most of us use many phrases that are derived from the writings of Shakespeare and we are completely unaware of their origin. Through his life and his profoundly eloquent writing, Shakespeare created works that are remarkable.…

John Wycliffe was born in the Yorkshire village of Wycliffe-on-Tees. Scholars differ as to the exact date of birth, but it is generally agreed that He was born in the Yorkshire village of Wycliffe-on-Tees around 1330. He entered Oxford College around 1345, just prior to the outbreak of the Black Death (1349-353). He received his Doctorate of Divinity in 1372. By 1371 Oxford had gained a reputation as the leading school of theological and philosophical studies, and Wycliffe stood out for his…