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Fresco in the former Abbey of Saint-André-de-Lavaudieu, France, 14th century, depicting the plague personified as a woman, she "carries arrows that strike those around her, often in the neck and armpits—in other words, places where the buboes commonly appeared" (Franco Mormando, Piety and Plague: from Byzantium to the Baroque, Truman State University Press, 2007).
We assume there will be renewed debate on the matter in the late 2000s, and won't weigh in ourselves in the meanwhile. When referring to a century, an easy way to remember is that it is one higher than the number that starts the century's years. So the 1500s were the 16th century, the 1600s were the 17th century, and so on.
An aspect of the Hundred Years’ War that many scholars tend to overlook is the impact that English soldiers – those warriors, both noble and common, who collectively represented the “military revolution” of 14th Century England – had on the society and culture of late medieval Europe as a whole. It is important to remember that this ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Giotto (born 1266/67 or 1276, Vespignano, near Florence [Italy]—died January 8, 1337, Florence) was the most important Italian painter of the 14th century, whose works point to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later. For almost seven centuries, Giotto has been revered as the father of European painting and the ...
Apr 16, 2020 · Anna Louise DesOrmeaux. "The Black Death and its Effect on 14th and 15th Century Art." Louisiana State University, N/A, pp. 1-22. Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa by Mark Wheelis Accessed 15 Apr 2020. Cantor, N. F. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made. Simon & Schuster, 2015. Cantor, N. F.
Years: Century: Millennium 1000-901 BC 10th century BC 1st millennium BC 900-801 BC 9th century BC 800-701 BC ... 14th century AD AD 1401-1500 15th century AD ...
Much of the evidence used to support this view was based on the series of apparently great disasters that struck Europe in the 14th century: the Mongol invasions, the great famine of 1315, the Black Death of 1348 and subsequent years, the financial collapse of the great Italian banking houses in the early 14th century, and the vastly increased ...
