HIST1083 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Little Ice Age, Bear-Baiting, Jousting
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Go to office hours and introduce yourself. The black death, 1348-50: globalization"s dark side. Globalization allowed catastrophe in asia and europe in the 14th century. In 14th century europe, there is no concept of nationalities-->broken up, linguistically different, etc. Knights would gain nobility by fighting and getting land from the nobles they were working for. Peasants or serfs were almost slaves-->in the service of their lords. Europe has a number of disasters that will change the future. Europe is an agricultural society, mostly rural, no sanitation, population growth before the black. Disruption: little ice age (1270), severe weather, famine (1315-1322), commercial slowdown, and scapegoats (jews population in europe b/c they weren"t hit very hard by the plague as the rest of the population did) These become a re-insisting belief that the end is coming. When people see these plagues, they think it is the end of the world. 14th century monthly labors on the land.
