DBQ Practice/Prep #2

What do primary sources during and after the plague suggest about the direct effect of the Black Death on European society?

Ordinance of Laborers, 1349:

 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/seth/ordinance-labourers.html

Jean Froissart: on the Jacquerie, 1358:

 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart2.html



The Confession of Agimet of Geneva, Châtel, October 20, 1348 and The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1349 and The Epitaph of Asher aben Turiel, Toledo, Spain, 1349 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.html



Assignment:

1. Write a thesis statement in response to the question.
2. Three paragraphs -- just analyse each source / back up thesis.
Note: this is not meant to be a final/formal essay -- just practice in dealing with Primary Sources.
Due Monday the 20th by classtime for peer review.