Villem ValgiJürgen LätteMartti Vaske

Sander Suurpere

From 1337 to 1453 (116 years)Between the royal houses of France and

EnglandFor the throne of France

Edward III Philip VI

Battle of Crécy 1346Battle of Poitiers 1356Battle of Agincourt 1415Besiege of Orléans and Joan of Arc 1429Battle of Castillon 1453

End of chivalryFirearms and artilleryNational feeling

The Wars of the RosesFrom 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 FranceThe unprodictable episodes of mental illness

by king Henry VI

The Campaign and the End of the Wars22 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 PlantagenetSon of Edward, the Black Prince and grandson of Edward IIICrushed the Peasant’s RevoltQuarreled with ParliamentThe commission of the ‘Lord Appellant’ was createdAbdicated in 1399Murdered in 1400

Peasants’ Revolt (1381)

BackgroundThe Black Death had devistated EuropeThe life of the serfs was really hardThe new poll tax

The revolt7th June, 1381 – the Great Council where Wat Tyler was elected the leader of the rebellionThe rebels marched to London14th June – meeting at Mile End15th June – meeting at Smithfield where Tyler was murderedThe revolt was crushed at ST. John’s Fields

Coscequences

Sowed the seed of democracyThe beginning of the end of serfdom in medieval EnglandLed to the reform of feudalismIncreased the rights of the serf class

Death of Wat Tyler

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey ChaucerWritten in Middle EnglishTwo of the stories are in

verse, other twenty two in prose

Influenced by The Decameron

G. Chaucer

PlotA 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'ssecond edition of the Canterbury Tales printed in 1483.

An example of the original text: 

'Wepyng and waylyng, care and oother sorweI knowe ynogh, on even and a-morwe,'Quod the Marchant, 'and so doon other moThat wedded been.'

Canterbury Tales falls into the category of frame tale

The structure is largely linear

The Tales is written during the time of thePeasants’ Revolt

Canterbury Cathedral