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Black
Black Death
Death and
and the
the
Peasants
Peasants’’ Revolt
Revolt of 1381
of 1381
Lecture 10
England
England in1348
in1348
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estimated number of inhabitants: between 3
to 7 million
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earlier demographic crises, e.g. the Great
Famine of 1315–1317 had resulted in great
numbers of deaths
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England a predominantly rural and
agrarian society
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close to 90% of the population lived in the
countryside
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the major cities
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London - 70,000 inhabitants
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Norwich - around 12,000 people
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York - around 10,000
Cloth
Cloth industry
industry
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wool - the main export and the source of the
nation's wealth
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up until the middle of the 14th century raw
wool exported to Flanders
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gradually the technology for cloth making
used on the Continent appropriated by
English manufacturers
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around mid-century an export of cloth
started (to boom over the following
decades)
The
The Black
Black Death
Death
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The terms used by contemporaries:
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"Great Pestilence„
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"Great Mortality“
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The plague caused by
Yersinia pestis
bacteria carried by fleas transferred to
humans through contact with rats
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