Medieval crises is a General codex entry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Codex entry[]
As it drew to a close, the late medieval world was shaken to its foundations. Old certaintities fell aprt and new hazards and dangers emerged. This crisis was reflected mainly in the demographic, political and religious (cultural and intellectual) areas.
Plague epidemic ravaged Europe from the mid-14th century on (although Bohemia largely escaped the worst). Even bofore that, agricultural production was in crisis, as it could no longer feed the burgeoning population of Europe. In the west of the continent, the One Hundred Years War was raging between England and France. In the east, the Teutonic Knights were engaged in long-term warfare in the Baltics against the Polish. The Russian principalities were being overrun by the Mongol rulers of the Golden Horde, and the Ottoman Empire, which was to become Europe's prime enemy in the early modern period, was getting increasingly stronger. Alongside these large-scale conflicts, numerous peasants uprising erupted, especially in the West.
Universal Unity, an important cornerstone of the medieval world, was shaken by the papal schism and the long-term failure to resolve them, and disputes within the Church itself. Imperial power, which stood for the second pillar of this universal unity in the role of secular power, was restricted to the ruler of the Central European lands, especially the German countries, with varying degrees of real power.