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Late Middle Ages and

Renaissance

DEAZ, Week 3
Scottish Rebellions
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge 1298 – Battle of Falkirk
1314 – Battle of Bannockburn
Hundred Years´ War
Black Death
1348-50, 1360 – European epidemic of plague claiming to 30-50% of English
population
Peasants´ Revolt
1381

Life of a Medieval Peasant


Criticism of Medieval Church
John Wycliffe 1331 – 1384
-papacy, monastic life, the English Bible
Wars of the Roses 1455 – 1485
-Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Henry VII
English Renaissance
1485 - 1660
Henry VIII
1491 – 1547 (r. from 1509)
- Church of England, expanding royal power, legal
annexe of Wales in 1535
Mary I
1516 – 1558 (r. from 1553)
-reinstated Roman Catholic Church in England
-loss of Calais
Elizabeth I
1533 – 1603 (r. from 1558)
-return to Anglican Church
- Mary, Queen of Scots
-1588 – defeat of the Spanish Armada

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