#  Historical Events of Chaucer's Time 

 



**Texts Relevant to Some Historical Events of Chaucer's Time**

For some excellent collections of source texts see:  
  
Paul Halsall's [Internet Medieval Source Book](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html)

ORB, The On-line Reference Book, edited by Kathryn Talaricor.

To find other useful sites go to [NetSerf, The internet connection for medieval sources](http://www.netserf.org/)

On **the Plague**, see:

The ORB Page on The Black Death

Boccaccio's account of [the Plague in Florence](/pages/decameron-first-day-introduction).  
  
  
On the **Peasants' revolt** see:

[The Literature of Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt](http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/richint.htm) Edited by James M. Dean. This is on the TEAMS site, another very useful collection of texts (mainly literary).

[Anonimalle Chronicle](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/anon1381.html) (an account of Wat Tyler).

[Gray's Scalacronica](/pages/wat-tylers-rebellion)(an account of Wat Tyler)

[The Brut or Chronicle of England](/commons-revolt-led-jack-straw-and-wat-tyler), an account of Jack Straw's rebellion.

   
Some **other related topics**:

Jean Froissart, on [the Jacquerie, 1358](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart2.html).

Jean Froissart, on the [Hundred Years War (1337-1453](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart1.html)).

[The ordinance of laborers (1349)](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/seth/ordinance-labourers.html)

[The Deposition and Death of Richard II and The Accession of Henry IV](/pages/deposition-and-death-richard-ii-1399).