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Apr 22, 2010 · People use the phrase “Middle Ages” to describe Europe between the fall of Rome in 476 CE and the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th century. Many scholars call the era the “medieval...
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14th Century, 1301 to 1400. 1303 Church power is in decline. Concerned about kings taxing church property, Pope Boniface VIII has issued a papal decree, Unam Sanctam, to maintain Church authority over kings. King Philip IV of France (r. 1285-1314) fears that he will be excommunicated and sends men to seize Boniface from one of his palaces.
Apr 19, 2024 · Middle Ages, the period in European history from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century CE to the dawn of the Renaissance (variously interpreted as beginning in the 13th, 14th, or 15th century, depending on the region of Europe and other factors).
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The 14th Century, a brief chronology and timeline of British History will evolve here. Our 14th century chronology and timelines are being created and curated but already via each century page you can quickly locate our collections for each 100 years of history.
Apr 4, 2018 · During the 14th century, a cultural movement called humanism began to gain momentum in Italy. Among its many principles, humanism promoted the idea that man was the center of his own universe,...
Go to Black Death: The Great Killers in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Politics. Persecution and repression. Religion. Judaism. c. 1349. Boccaccio begins his Decameron, supposedly the stories told by young Florentine men and women sheltering from the Black Death.
14th century Timeline 1304-1321 Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), by Dante Alighieri ; most consensual dates are: Inferno written between 1304 and 1307-1308, Purgatorio from 1307-1308 to 1313-1314 and last the Paradiso from 1313-1314 to 1321 (year of Dante's death).