Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.43 - The Black Death and Its Effects
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
The second part of Volume Two starts with passages relating to the Black Death which ravaged the population in 1349. Knighton’s Chronicle records a series of facts about the impact of the plague. The Ordinance of Labourers, recorded in a Close Roll of 1349, states the new regulations governing the employment of rural and urban workers. These were aimed at curbing the increased power of workers now that many had died in the plague. The situation is seen from the perspective of the upper classes who needed servants but who did not wish to pay the higher wages demanded.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 382 - 391Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024