His collection of stories told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Thomas 'a Becket in Canterbury portrays the entire range of English society of his day.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
100
Its invention introduced a new conception of time.
What is the mechanical clock?
200
Estimated European population decline between 1347 and 1351
What is 25 to 50 percent?
200
Refusal of the English King Edward III ( a descendant of the last Capetian king of France) to pay homage over Gascony (English territory in France) to Philip IV, the first Valois king of France
What is cause of the Hundred Years' War?
200
City that would be the residence of popes from 1305-1377
What is Avignon?
200
Dante's masterpiece, which is divided into three sections correspoonding to hell, purgatory, and paradise
What is the Divine Comedy?
200
Material used to make the paper that began replacing parchment
What are cotton rags?
300
The English Statute of Laborers was an attempt to lower it
What is the wage rate (cost of labor)?
300
The English weapon that gave them a great advantage during the early years of the war
What is the longbow?
300
Name usually given to the time period from 1378-1417 when there were two (or even three0 rival "popes"
What is the Great Schism?
300
The subject of artistic works based on the ars moriendi
What is death and/or dying?
300
Medical practitioner who performed such tasks as blood letting, setting broken bones, pulling teeth, shaving, and cutting hair
What is a barber-surgeon?
400
Reason flagellants flogged themselves and each other with whips as they roamed from town to town
What is to atone for humanity's sins and seek God's forgiveness in order to end the plague?
400
The Prince of Wales whose campaigns in France were extremely devasting
Who is Edward, the Black Prince?
400
Female mystic, who claimed to have been sustained herself on cold water, herbs, and the Eucharist for ten years, who was sent on a mission to Pope Gregory XI to urge him to return the papacy to Rome
Who is Catherine of Sina?
400
His three dimensional painting, which broke with Medieval tradition, is often considered as a forerunner of the Italian Renaissance.
Who is Giotto?
400
Profession that was subject to more taxation and regulation after the Black Death, even the requirement for distinguishing items of clothing like a red hat
What is prostitution?
500
Area in easter Europe where many Jews flew to escape pogroms
What is poland?
500
The French weapon that gave them an edge in the last few decades of the war
What is the cannon?
500
Meeting place of the council that end the Great Schism
What is Constance?
500
Boccaccio's best known work is a collection of stories told by people hiding in a villa in an attempt to escape the Black Death.
What is the Decameron?
500
According to William of Occam, the only things that are real and be analyzed by reason