Feudalism In The Middle Ages

Wars were also part of the crisis, notably the Hundred Years War between England and France. In 1328 the French Capetian line ended. England’s Edward III (d.1377) claimed the French throne, but a cousin to the Capets, Philip of Valois, became king (d.1350). War soon began. Armored knights on horseback were the backbone of medieval armies, but English peasants using the longbow had begun to change the face of war. When the French king was captured, a treaty was signed in 1360: France agreed to pay ransom, the English received land in France, and Edward renounced his claim to the throne. Using guerilla tactics, the French regained their lands, but in 1415 England’s Henry V (d.1422)

Through history there have been devastating events during time periods, which eventually lead to positive outcomes, after all the sorrow comes the miracle everyone hoped for. As they say “there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.” As a matter of fact that is what happened during The Fourteenth century, it was one of the most devastating centuries, filled with horrible events, the outcome of those events led to the reshaping of Europe and Asia through trends and events. In Europe, during the Fourteenth Century, the population was soaring and there was surplus in the food supply.

The society was affected because the farm lands abandoned and the food food prices dropped. There was not as much food needed because the populations had dropped. The people were down sick and they could not work which caused the farm lands to be abandoned and

The many lawmakers died leaving lawbreakers to go unpunished. Society needed many services to be preformed. “At this moment of crisis, if you survived the Black Plague and you were able body, you might have been put to work. Work opportunities were made available to anyone who was alive and could work. Despite any attempt to keep the economy in order supply and demand took over. Wages in the towns soared to two even three times the level they had held in the crowded thirteenth century,” (Herlihy, 48). The poor people started to go from town to town looking to make the most money. “The people who could work changed there tone and wanted money instead of food and shelter. The poor liked the fact that they were getting more money but the enjoyed the great gain on being able to buy more land. How numerous were the famous families, the vast estates, the notable fortunes, that were seen to be left without a rightful successor!”(Boccaccio, 13). Two things were needed to be more economically efficient and that was consumption reduction and production increase. In order to raise production, people would have to get and cultivate more affordable land. With population reduction and higher wages, new agricultural technique needed to be put in place. The new agricultural allowed those that could afford to rent the land a new investment in livestock. In spite of the many new accomplishments the people still want to be more efficient because of the better

Inflation and a shortage of labour supply immediately implemented farmers as would likely have not been able to afford to pay for their land due to a loss of rental income from tenants, causing them to lose their land. Many farmers, according to Rubin sought to move away from labour-intensive cultivation to more diverse activities such as mining, pasturing and fisheries, as required less care than crops, indicating a turning point in the ways that farmers sought to earn their money. This is supported by Dyer , who analysed the consumption of foodstuffs of harvest workers in Norfolk, to find an intensification in meat consumption to 15% in 1353 from 9% in 1341 and a decrease in bread consumption from 34% in 1341, to 31% in 1353. This indicates a clear shift, which may have resulted from the impacts of the Black Death, inferring that there may have been a turning point at the time as there was a

Research Paper Rough Draft One of the world’s most important wars happened in medieval time, known as the Hundred Year’s war. The Hundred Year’s war was a war between England and France, which started as a conflict between kings. The war also brought many changes to fighting tactics, religion, and government. The Hundred Year’s war, which started off as a conflict to become king, had major turning points and battles which helped bring change to the world. The Hundred Year’s war was caused by a conflict that started with king Charles IV and the fight to become king.

In this time, there were many dust storms in places that grow crops because so much wheat was being grown. Also, there was a bad drought that also affected the growth of the crops. To get through this, people in other areas would send food for the people that didn’t have any at all. the government also would give out loans to the farmers, that they wouldn’t have to pay back until there were

Farmers were forced to leave their crops to rot, leaving more people to go hungry

The 14th century was a time in the Middle Ages where a lot of things were changing. The plague caused a huge population deficit and climate played a major role in this as well. At this time, the government was poorly organized which led to dirty cities that could further the spread of the plague. Many people had malnutrition, which consequently furthered the spread of diseases, killing even more people and affecting the economy. With such a large number of people dead, the cost of labor increased and women were needed to work as there were not enough men for certain jobs to function. I am aware that other events during this time could have caused changes as well, but the most prominent and devastating were that of diseases and climate. When you put all of these factors into perspective, you can see that the climate and diseases in the 14th century played a major role in the social, political, and economic changes that occurred.

A struggle between the House of York and the house of Lancaster broke out; which became a series of wars known as The War of the Roses. The kingship was based on the royal bloodline and the kings relied upon the support of the powerful Lords to keep their position. [5] Both Henry Tudor and Richard III believed each had claims to the English throne as they were both descended from Edward III.[2] Henry Lancastrian’s claim to the throne was from Edward III’s son, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.[2] In 1339 Henry of Bolingbroke; John’s son imprisoned, Richard II who was the son of Edward, the Black Prince..[2] Henry IV became king, passing his crown to his son Henry V who passed the crown to Henry VI. Henry VI was becoming unpopular, due to corruption within his government, his policy of peace with France and the economic situation in

In 1337, the Hundred Years’ War began. In 1328, when Charles IV of France died with a male heir, Edward III of England felt he had the right to the throne because of his mother, Isabella of France. Being French, they did not want a English king. Philip VI of France was also after the throne. This then preceded to cause the two countries to erupt in war. Between 1348 and 1356, fighting halted because of a sickness that was sweeping Europe out, the Black Death. This is repeated in the Civil War where a large population of soldiers were killed by dysentery as well as typhoid fever, coming from lice. Sickness could have been the main causes for both of these had not been for modern

The rich farmers used all new mechanical tractors to dig up 10X the amount of farmland they needed but with the more farmland came the need for more water and the drought was just around the corner and i think you know the rest. Also withe the new tractors they needed more land so they went to the fields of short grass just destroying everything around them like digging up short grass and messing up the terrain to make more farmland.

The depopulation was accompanied by a reduction of output. In Leicester in England, there was severe shortage of servants and laborers, and “many crops rotted unharvested in the fields” (5). In the village of Elkington in Northamptonshire, the number of taxpayers seems to have decreased due to depopulation during the period between 1377 and 1412(6); and “by the first decade of the fifteenth century, grain production levels between the Tyne and Tees appear to have been less than one-third their level of a century earlier.”(7)

The lives of all medieval Europeans were tied to the fortunes of agriculture. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a gradually warming climate lengthened the growing season in northern Europe, making it possible to grow more grain even on less arable land. This trend was reversed at the end of the thirteenth century and in the fourteenth century the European mainland became progressively colder. This caused changes in rainfall patterns, shortened the growing seasons and lessened the productivity of cereal agriculture. Europe's vulnerability to climatic change came in 1315 during the great famine in northern Europe. Crop Failure was a big issue. Europe suffered numerous catastrophes that would go down in history as "The Four Horsemen of

Feudalism, as a decentralized political system, flourished in Medieval Europe. In this essay, the main political and economic characteristics of Feudalism will be mentioned, while discussing the main historical factors to the rise and fall of feudalism.