The "European Crisis" of the Fourteenth Century
Increased Mobility of
Europe circa 1250 AD
Commerce
Italy and the Levant Trade
Marco Polo (1254-1324
)
Trade Fairs of Champagn
e
Flanders, Italy, and European Commerce
Pilgrimage
Santiago de Compostela
Geoffrey Chaucer,
The Canterbury Tales
The Crusades
European Crises
The "Babylonian Captivity" and Great Schism
The Black Death
(1348-49)
Islamic Expansion and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Between
Dante
(1265-1321) and
Petrarch
(1304-1374): A Cosmological Shift?
