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Medieval masterclass 4: Revolution 1348-1527

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The Black Death and Its Effects on the Population

The population never recovered to pre black ood, or did not recover to pre black death levels until the eighteenth nineteenth centuries. In response to that, what you see in the second half of the fourteenth century is a series of populist revolts. And during the dissolution of themonasteries in 15 37 to there is a big, big a legacy of popular rebellion and social disharmony. Some of the other legacies of the black death, at least in part, are an extraordinary renewal and revival in the arts. So although the beginning of the renaissance, this transformation in literature, in architecture, in a thinking about politics and society and pofcourse, most famously in art and

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