Late Middle Ages

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historical period phase of Middle Ages

The Late Middle Ages was the final phase of medieval European history, marked by social upheaval, the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and the transition toward the Renaissance.

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Surface form	Occurrences
late Middle Ages	3

Statements (99)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical period ⓘ phase of Middle Ages ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
country	various European states ⓘ
endTime	c. 1500 ⓘ
follows	High Middle Ages ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	changes in agricultural practices ⓘ crisis of medieval institutions ⓘ cultural innovation ⓘ decline of papal authority ⓘ demographic decline ⓘ development of banking and credit ⓘ economic contraction in many regions ⓘ emergence of early Renaissance humanism ⓘ expansion of European maritime exploration ⓘ growth of courtly culture ⓘ growth of literacy ⓘ increased contact with the Islamic world ⓘ increasing use of vernacular languages ⓘ intensification of class conflict ⓘ military transformation ⓘ political instability ⓘ religious conflict ⓘ rise of powerful territorial states ⓘ shifts in landholding patterns ⓘ widespread social upheaval ⓘ
hasMajorEvent	Albigensian Crusade ⓘ Avignon Papacy ⓘ Avignon Papacy ⓘ surface form: Avignon residency of the papacy Battle of Agincourt ⓘ Battle of Crécy ⓘ Battle of Grunwald ⓘ Battle of Kosovo 1389 ⓘ Battle of Nicopolis ⓘ Battle of Crécy ⓘ surface form: Battle of Poitiers Battle of Varna ⓘ Black Death ⓘ Burgundian Wars ⓘ Ciompi Revolt ⓘ Council of Basel ⓘ Council of Constance ⓘ Council of Florence ⓘ Council of Pisa ⓘ Fall of Constantinople 1453 AD ⓘ surface form: Fall of Constantinople Reconquista ⓘ surface form: Fall of Granada Great Famine of 1315–1317 ⓘ Western Schism ⓘ surface form: Great Schism Hundred Years' War ⓘ Hussite movement ⓘ surface form: Hussite Wars Jacquerie ⓘ Jewish expulsions from Western European kingdoms ⓘ Ottoman expansion into the Balkans ⓘ Peasants' Revolt of 1381 ⓘ Age of Exploration ⓘ surface form: Portuguese Age of Discovery Reconquista ⓘ Wars of the Roses ⓘ Western Schism ⓘ centralization of royal administrations ⓘ codification of customary law ⓘ construction of Gothic cathedrals ⓘ crisis of the feudal system ⓘ decline of chivalric warfare ⓘ decline of knightly cavalry dominance ⓘ development of early Renaissance art ⓘ development of late Gothic architecture ⓘ development of longbow tactics ⓘ early witch persecutions ⓘ expansion of trade networks ⓘ fall of the Byzantine Empire ⓘ growth of merchant capitalism ⓘ growth of towns and cities ⓘ growth of universities in Europe ⓘ introduction of gunpowder weapons in Europe ⓘ invention of the printing press ⓘ mystical religious movements ⓘ papal–imperial conflicts ⓘ persecution of heretical movements ⓘ plague outbreaks in Europe ⓘ religious dissent ⓘ rise of Muscovy ⓘ rise of guilds ⓘ rise of humanism ⓘ rise of national identities in Europe ⓘ rise of powerful monarchies in Western Europe ⓘ rise of standing armies ⓘ rise of the Hanseatic League ⓘ rise of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ rise of the Swiss Confederacy ⓘ scholastic philosophy ⓘ social unrest among peasants ⓘ spread of the bubonic plague ⓘ spread of vernacular literature ⓘ transition toward the Renaissance ⓘ transition toward the early modern period ⓘ union of Poland and Lithuania ⓘ urban revolts in Flanders ⓘ voyages of Henry the Navigator ⓘ
partOf	Middle Ages ⓘ
startTime	c. 1300 ⓘ

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Battle of Sluys → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Cross of Burgundy → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Earls of Morton → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

subject surface form: Earl of Morton

papal bull Exigit sincerae devotionis affectus → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

subject surface form: Exigit sincerae devotionis affectus

First War of Scottish Independence → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Frederick the Wise → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Hundred Years' War → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Jacquerie → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Lord of the Isles → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Red Rose of Lancaster → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Rex Italiae → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Siege of Constantinople 1422 → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

this entity surface form: late Middle Ages

Statute of Labourers 1351 → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Wars of the Roses → historicalPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Archduke of Austria → historicalPeriodOfUse → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight → literaryPeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Perpendicular Gothic → period → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

this entity surface form: late Middle Ages

Spanish real → startTime → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

this entity surface form: late Middle Ages

Earl of Douglas → timePeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Medellín, Crown of Castile → timePeriod → Late Middle Ages ⓘ

Liddesdale → timePeriodOfProminence → Late Middle Ages ⓘ