the perfect storm: the 1300s
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The Perfect Storm:The 1300s
The One Hundred Years War
• Political Corruption
• The People are tired of constant Rape, Pillage, and Murder. It is not the Kings and Nobility that suffer
• Also the Kings are raising taxes to pay for this war with little gain for the common people
Avignon Papacy
• Religious Corruption
• The Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church is moved to Avignon France by King Phillip IV
• A new Papacy will form in Rome again to counter act the one in Avignon
• Eventually, Europe will have three Popes at once and all will be Excommunicated
The Bubonic Plague• Corruption of Medieval Society
• 1/3 of the population of Europe dies in 3 years and there is no explanation as to why
• The Church’s explanation is that God is punishing sinful man
Influx of Knowledge from the Crusades
• The Knowledge of Greece and Rome was also kept by the Muslims and Byzantines.
• During the Crusades the knights of Europe begin to experience these cultures
• They Crusaders bring the ideas of Greece and Rome back to Western Civilization
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