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1 giorno fa · By the early 1340s, it was clear that Edward's policy of alliances was too costly, and yielded too few results. The following years saw more direct involvement by English armies, including in the Breton War of Succession, but these interventions also proved fruitless at first.
4 giorni fa · Some studies indicate that the Black Death which devastated Europe in the late 1340s may have traveled from China to Europe along the trade routes of the Mongol Empire.
2 giorni fa · The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Europe, the Renaissance ). [1] Around 1350, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt.
5 giorni fa · Although exact figures are impossible to obtain, it is likely that the population of England fell from an estimated 5.5 million people in the mid-1340s to around 2.5 million in the mid-1370s.12 The Black Death of 1348/9 had suddenly transformed the economy from a position of chronic over-supply of labour – characterized by widespread under-employment, low nominal and real wages, and sporadic ...
3 giorni fa · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 26, 2024 • Article History. Black Death. Date: 1347 - 1351. Location: Europe. Context: pandemic. On the Web: Gresham College - The Black Death (May 06, 2024) Recent News. May 22, 2024, 5:32 AM ET (NBC) Body lice may have spread plague more than thought, science suggests. Top Questions.
17 mag 2024 · In the 1340s and 1350s, when he insisted on the levying of public taxation at a time of widespread popular suffering he revealed himself to his subjects as callous and uncaring, contemptuous of their well-being.
Whatever the town suffered in 1349, Colchester recovered rapidly in the 1350s. Recovery was due mainly to a flow of immigrants attracted by the town's growing cloth industry. In the 1340s on average c. 15 burgesses were admitted from outside the town each year; in the 1350s the average grew to c. 22, including, unusually, a few women.
