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Villem Valgi
Jürgen Lätte
Martti Vaske
Sander Suurpere
 From 1337 to 1453 (116 years)
 Between the royal houses of France and England
 For the throne of France
Edward III
Philip VI
 Battle of Crécy 1346
 Battle of Poitiers 1356
 Battle of Agincourt 1415
 Besiege of Orléans and
Joan of Arc 1429
 Battle of Castillon 1453
 End of chivalry
 Firearms and artillery
 National feeling
The Wars of the Roses
 From 1455 to 1485
 Between the House of
Lancaster and the House
of York
 Fought for the throne of
England
Major Causes
 both houses were direct descendents of king Edward
III
 the ruling Lancastrian king, Henry VI, had lost all the
lands on the continent of France
 The unprodictable episodes of mental illness by king
Henry VI
The Campaign and the End of the Wars
 22 May 1455 the battle of
St Albans
 1461 the Battle of Towton
 1485 the Battle of
Bosworth Field
Richard II (1367- 1400)
The eight King of England of the
house of Plantagenet
Son of Edward, the Black Prince
and grandson of Edward III
Crushed the Peasant’s Revolt
Quarreled with Parliament
The commission of the ‘Lord
Appellant’ was created
Abdicated in 1399
Murdered in 1400
Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
Background
The Black Death had
devistated Europe
The life of the serfs was
really hard
The new poll tax
The revolt
7th June, 1381 – the Great
Council where Wat Tyler was
elected the leader of the
rebellion
The rebels marched to
London
14th June – meeting at Mile
End
15th June – meeting at
Smithfield where Tyler was
murdered
The revolt was crushed at
ST. John’s Fields
Coscequences
Sowed the seed of
democracy
The beginning of
the end of serfdom
in medieval
England
Led to the reform
of feudalism
Increased the
rights of the serf
class
Death of Wat Tyler
The Canterbury Tales
 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Written in Middle English
 Two of the stories are in verse,
other twenty two in prose
 Influenced by The Decameron
G. Chaucer
Plot
 A group of pilgrims are heading to Canterbury
Cathedral, to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket
 Character from different classes: monks, shipmen,
yeomen, knights etc.
 Everyone has to tell four stories during the pilgrimage
A woodcut from William Caxton's
second edition of the Canterbury Tales printed in 1483.
An example of the original text:
'Wepyng and waylyng, care and oother
sorwe
I knowe ynogh, on even and a-morwe,'
Quod the Marchant, 'and so doon other mo
That wedded been.'
 Canterbury Tales falls into the category of frame
tale
 The structure is largely linear
Canterbury Cathedral
The Tales is written during the time of the
Peasants’ Revolt