Exam 11: Rebirth and Unrest,1350–1453

Those who claimed aristocratic status in the fourteenth century did so by:

The series of pageant plays performed at York were motivated by devotion but also:

The social mobility of the fourteenth century was made possible largely due to the:

As a result of the depopulation in Europe caused by the Black Death:

The Holy Roman Empire and the Italian Peninsula did not unite as national monarchies in part because:

What determined nobility in the late Middle Ages?

The English Peasants' Revolt,like other popular uprisings of the fourteenth century,had its fundamental origins in:

How were women's devotional practices a challenge to Church authority in the late Middle Ages?

Compare and contrast the effect of the plague on the towns as opposed to the countryside.

Before the Ottomans captured Constantinople,some of their number had worked as mercenaries for the Eastern Roman Empire.

The English Lollards were the lay followers and successors of which late medieval theologian?

Historians today generally use the term Renaissance to refer to:

The growth of power claims based on classical models,including patronage of the arts,occurred in Renaissance Italy due to the:

The works of Boccaccio,Chaucer,and de Pisan all demonstrate:

Women who migrated to cities after the Black Death found their opportunities:

Religious devotion in the later Middle Ages sometimes supported commercial enterprises.

Just as Boccaccio wrote about a group of people telling stories to one another while sitting out the Black Death,_________ wrote about a group of people telling stories to one another while on a pilgrimage.

How was humanist education a break from the tradition of scholastic education?

The Black Death and ensuing social unrest resulted in noble families:

Most of the innovations that occurred in farming after the first waves of the Black Death were made by: