Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0427 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Europe's Fourteenth Century
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The idea
England and France fought the Hundred Years' War; the Golden Bull of thirteen fifty-six fixed seven imperial electors; three men claimed the papacy at once from thirteen seventy-eight. Peasants gained status as feudalism declined, and anxiety about the church stirred reform.
In practice
Berger's dates: thirteen thirty-seven to fourteen fifty-three.
Where people slip
The Great Western Schism is not the schism of ten fifty-four.
Your place on the trail
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