The Eternal Time of History - Part XIV #975869

The relationship between the Papacy and power that marked the period of the Avignon Papacy and the conditions that would spark the Hundred Years' War form the backdrop to the events of a French family of Norman origin torn between the concreteness of money and the revolutionary ideas of William of Ockham.
These divergent paths were the seeds of future great rivalries between France and England, which began to emerge in the fourteenth century.
The middle of the century was dominated by the almost total destruction wrought by the Black Death and the decline of the power of the Maritime Republics, particularly Genoa.
Against this backdrop, Florence, Venice, and Milan saw their progressive rise, driven by trade, credit institutions, and major artistic and cultural movements exemplified by Giotto, Boccaccio, and Petrarch.
Finally, the epic of the Timurid Empire under the leadership of Tamerlane restores the illusion of a past that cannot return, but which, instead, will pave the way for a future of great innovations and upheavals.