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| 1348 |
| | | The Black Death, making its way through Europe, is described in vivid detail by Boccaccio who sees its devastating effect in Florence | |
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| 1348 |
| | | Massacres of Jews, rumoured to have caused the Black Death by poisoning wells, begin in southern France and spread through much of Europe | |
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| c. 1349 |
| | | Boccaccio begins his Decameron, supposedly the stories told by young Florentine men and women sheltering from the Black Death | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | The Perpendicular style develops from the Decorated phase in English Gothic architecture | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Water power is used in England for the heavy work of fulling cloth, in mills which can be seen as a first step towards the Industrial Revolution | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | William Tell, a figure of legend, epitomizes the struggle of the Swiss farmers against their feudal overlords, the Habsburgs | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Armies of mercenaries, led by condottieri, conduct Italian warfare at an often extortionate rate | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | Humanism, or the study of classical literature as a living tradition, develops into one of the main strands of the Renaissance | |
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| 1350 |
| | | Boccaccio, visiting Petrarch in Florence, is inspired to devote himself to the pursuit of classical studies | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | The classic Chinese underglaze blue is perfected in the imperial ceramic factory at Jingdezhen | |
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