10º session: Society. Economy. The late medieval crisis (1)

CONTENTS: 59-62
ESTRUCTURA SOCIOECONÓMICA:
1. Did anything change in Spanish medieval society or economy?

2. Feudalism did appear in the Iberian peninsula through frankish influence. How did it evolve and spread?

3. Which types of feudal dominions appeared?

4. In spite of Presura or free repopulation, Feudalism did spread in the end. Why? Where and when especially?
SOCIEDAD
5. Which privileges did the two predominant social groups enjoy? Who were the non privileged?

6. How did the high nobility secure its power and revenue at the end of the Reconquest? And what kept the Church immensely rich after that process, apart from land donations?

7. Why wasn’t the distribution of the two non privileged groups homogeneous in the two kingdoms?

8. Then we have two segregated minorities, jews and muslims (mudéjares). Why were only jews persecuted?

9. When does economic structure begin to change?

10. Compare briefly the situation in Castile and Aragon.
D. LA CRISIS BAJOMEDIEVAL.
Crisis demográfica y agrícola
11. What made the effects of the so called Black Death (CONCEPT P. 62 UP,IMAGE 62 DWN), reach such an apocalyptic level?

12. Did it affect all of the Spanish kingdoms equally?

13. Economic ruin spread as in a nightmare. How?
Revueltas sociales:
14. We have explained how peasants were affected. How did they respond to it? Name examples.

15. Who were blamed for the bad situation?. What happened in towns?