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Contents

• The "Calamitous" 14th Century
  • A Malthusian Crisis?
  • The Black Death
  • Warfare
• Ecclesiastical Disarray
  • The Great Schism
  • Conciliarism
  • The Papal Response
• Late Medieval Governments
  • The Empire
  • Italy
  • France
    • Joan of Arc
  • England

• A Malthusian Crisis?
  • [Tierney 83] Johannes of Trowkelowe: Annales: On the Famine of 1315.
• The Black Death
  • Procopius: The Plague, 542, History of the Wars, II.xxii-xxxiii:
    Description of the onset of the earlier "plague of Justinian."
  • [Tierney 84] Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron: Introduction, on the Black Death, as is another version. The entire Decameron is also available: Volume I and Volume II. [At Project Gutenberg]
  • The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349
    Contains: The Confession of Agimet of Geneva, , October 20, 1349; Jacob von Königshofen (1346-1420); Chonicle;  The Epitaph of Asher aben Turiel, Toledo, Spain, 1349
• Warfare
  • Orders for the English Fleet, 1326. [At Hillsdale]
  • [Tierney 85, Geary 46.1. 46.2] Jean Froissart: Battles of Crecy 1346, of Poitiers 1356, from Chronicles. Longer extracts in Geary.
  • [Tierney 86, Geary 46.3] Jean Froissart: The Jacquerie, 1358, from Chronicles
  • Jean Froissart: The English Peasant Revolt, 1381, from Chronicles [At UVA]
  • [Tierney 87] Anonimalle Chronicle: Peasant Uprising of 1381.
  • [Geary 46.4] Jean Froissart: Chronicles - The Last Days of Etienne Marcel 1358, copyrighted
  • Tales from Froissart. [At Nipissing]
    Selection of short excerpts from Froissart.
  • Sir Jean Froissart: John of Gaunt in Portugal, 1385
  • Sir Jean Froissart: How Philip van Artevelde was Made Governor of Ghent, 1386
  • The Hundred Years War In The High Court of Parlement, trans Fred Cheyette.
  • Hundred Years War: Treaty of Troyes, 1420 and Conditions in France in 1422.

• The Great Schism
  • The Great Schism: Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals, 1378.
  • The Great Schism: The University of Paris on the Schism, 1393.
  • Jean Froissart: The Great Schism, from Chronicles [At UVA]
• Conciliarism
  • Decree of Council of Pisa: On the Powers of the Council, 1409
  • The Great Schism: The Council of Pisa Declares itself Competent to Judge Popes, 1409.
  • [Tierney 96.1] Council of Constance: DecreeSacrosancta, 1415.
  • [Tierney 96.2] Council of Constance: Deposition of John XXIII, 1415, copyrighted
  • [Tierney 97.1] Council of Constance: Decree Frequens, 1415.
  • [Tierney 97.2] Council of Constance: List of Abuses, 1417.
• The Papal Response
  • [Tierney 97.3] Pius II (r.1458-1464): Bull Execrabilis, 1459 . See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Pope Martin V.

• See the specific Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History page
• The Empire
  • Licet Juris, 1338
  • [Geary 42] Charles IV: Autobiography [r.1355-78], copyrighted?
  • [Tierney 92, Geary 43] Charles IV: The Golden Bull, 1356. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Bulla Aurea (Golden Bull).
  • Levy of Troops for Wars in Bohemia, 1422.
• Italy
  • Bartolus of Sassoferrato: On the Tyrant, c.1330, trans. Steve Lane [slane@tezcat.com], on tyranny in Italian city government.
  • [Tierney 95] Machiavelli: Discourses - on papacy, copyrighted
• France
  • Philippe de Commynes: Portrait of Louis IX [r. 1461-1483] (c. 1498)
  • Joan of Arc
    • [Tierney 94.1] Joan of Arc: Letter to the King of France, 1429. [A different version than Tierney's].
    • [Tierney 94.1] The Trial of Joan of Arc, 1431.
    • Johann Nider: On Joan of Arc, (d. 1438)
• England
  • [Tierney 93] Parliamentary Rolls: Deposition of Richard II 1399, copyrighted.