HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Quadrivium, Avignon Papacy
Famine, Plague, and War
I. Growth of Towns
A. The Manor
1. New technology more grain production
2. Surplus sold at markets at fairs and festivals
3. Rise of the Market Town
B. Communes
C. Guilds
II. Birth of the University
A.
III. 14th Century Apocalypse?
A. Famine:
B. Plague:
C. War:
D. Turmoil in the Church:
Definitions:
• Communes: “free town”; town is run by the people of the town
• Guilds: trade associations
• Universities:
• Trivium = grammar, rhetoric, logic
• Quadrivium = arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music
• College:
• Famine:
• Bubonic plague:
• Flagellants:
• Hundred Years' War:
• Edward III: 1327-1377
• Philip VI of Valois: 1328-1350
• Battle of Crécy: 1346
• Long bow:
• Joan of Arc:
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