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Notes on Middle Ages

The Middle Ages

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

11:29 AM

Futile System

1. King
2. Dukes or barons
3. Knights
4. peasants

• If you were born into a class that is where you belong
• There is no social mobility
• There were three orders
• Those who pray 5%
• Those who fight 5%
• Those who work the - rest

• Your class was part of who you were
• Serfs were as bad as slaves -treated like animals
• Had to have permission to do anything
• Could be sold

• Weren't allowed to hunt on the king's land
• Could be thrown off their land if the king wanted to make their land a hunting ground

Gothic and Romanesque: France

• All the power with the church
• 1095 pope orders the first crusade to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims
• First of many crusades
• Touchy topic
• Muslim armies are more organized and stronger
• When they get to Jerusalem they are completely wiped out
• First crusade a complete failure

• Back in France new age of architecture and art
• 1000-1100 Romanesque
• Churches were set up like fortresses
• Made for people to take refuge in if there was an attack or other
• Sculptures on churches represent the millennium theology
• Apocalyptic and worried
• Round archways
• 1100-1400 gothic art
• Full of images of light
• The Annunciation compared to the Last Judgment
• Huge stained glass windows allowing light to come down from heave
• More elegant larger more welcoming arches
• Huge glass windows

1455 - Johann Gutenberg prints the first of his Bibles on his printing press - changed the way that people communicated - maybe the end of the middle ages

The White Swarm

The year is 1968 on a small island off the coast of Argentina. This island, Parasio, is small and isn't even marked on most maps but is inhabited by over 100 people. These people are from all over the world and have come to this island to get away from modern society. One man leads them all. This man was loved by all and hated by none, but he was cruel and violent. He promised a better life for those people but really only controlled them. He had complete control over them and the people on the island had no way to live by themselves or to even escape if they wanted to.

One day a strange man came ashore the island in hopes for a better life. He was immediately engrossed in this new "perfect society" and had made a new life for himself. But when he went to meet with the leader of the island, the leader knew the man was trouble. The leader instantly told his spies that he had placed throughout the island to watch the man. The spies did not help because that night the leader of Parasio died mysteriously in his sleep. Doctors later found that his lungs had imploded while he slept leaving no marks on the body.

Instantly everyone appointed the new man the leader. All on the island accepted him as the leader, even the old leader's spies and body guards. Each man, woman, and child swore allegiance to him. Soon though things began to go awry. People on the island started to die. Each of the dead had had their lungs imploded while they were sleeping leaving no marks on the body. Within thirty six hours of coming into contact the new leader, that person was dead. Every one panicked and tried to get off the island, but there was no way to get off. They were trapped.

Within a month there was no one left on the island except the new man who had joined the island society and become the leader. He was trapped on the island with no way to get off and only the dead for company. He went mad and eventually killed himself and as soon as he was dead the white swarm of parasites left his body to find new victims.

The Bubonic Plague

Bubonic Plague - "The Black Death"

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

11:13 AM

Mongols threw dead plague ridden bodies at city walls and soon those people had it

Rats with infected fleas got on boats and then got off in the Mediterranean

People began to die only days after the plague came

Took about four days for the victim to die

One priest helped the sick and lived to describe it

Many people thought this was the last judgment coming

Hundreds died every week

Almost none recovered from it once they got it

First Sicily then Italy then on into the rest of Europe

Some people thought it was the alignment of the stars at fault and the alignment of planets meant death

At the Vatican the pope was constantly surrounded by fire so that fleas and rats couldn't get to him

Doctors didn't help

One priest did get the plague, treated himself, and then recovered

Once he recovered he used his experience to research it

Stayed in one area for a few months and then moved on

By 1350 it was over

The Bubonic Plague

Bubonic Plague - "The Black Death"

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

11:13 AM

Mongols threw dead plague ridden bodies at city walls and soon those people had it

Rats with infected fleas got on boats and then got off in the Mediterranean

People began to die only days after the plague came

Took about four days for the victim to die

One priest helped the sick and lived to describe it

Many people thought this was the last judgment coming

Hundreds died every week

Almost none recovered from it once they got it

First Sicily then Italy then on into the rest of Europe

Some people thought it was the alignment of the stars at fault and the alignment of planets meant death

At the Vatican the pope was constantly surrounded by fire so that fleas and rats couldn't get to him

Doctors didn't help

One priest did get the plague, treated himself, and then recovered

Once he recovered he used his experience to research it

Stayed in one area for a few months and then moved on

By 1350 it was over

1066: A Year in Perspective by Bryan Doherty and Matt Henderson

Knights of the Round Table story

How Tristram overcame the battle

Elias wanted to do battle with King Mark and sent a messenger to tell him

King Mark agreed and put his best knight, a guy named Sir Tristram, in charge of the battle

So this Sir Tristram prepares all the men for battle and goes out to meet Elias' men

They all fought hard but Sir Tristram was really going at it. He was killing people on the right on the left just slaying knight after knight. He even comes to King Mark's rescue when he is about to be over taken

After the battle Elias was so impressed with this Sir Tristan that he sends for a knight to fight him man on man to try and get rid of them

He sends another messenger to King Mark to tell him he wants the two to fight an Mark says yes because he knows Tristram will dominate all over again

Class Blog Submission - Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo was a converted Christian, that lived in the 300s CE. He is famous for being the bishop of the city of Hippo in Africa, and his works that have survived and are still used today. His works, such as "Confessions", have left a large mark on the way that people view and follow modern Christianity.

Augustine wasn't always, a devout Christian priest. As a young man he was involved in several different religious groups that didn't necessarily follow the strict teachings of the Christian Church. By being involved in these groups he gained knowledge of different beliefs and ways of looking at things that were taught by the religions of the world. Augustine spent most of his life looking for the meaning of good and evil. When he did rejoin the church and became a priest he brought his knowledge with him that eventually changed the way that Christians looked at their beliefs.

"Augustine of Hippo (354-430)." EarlyChurch.org.uk: An Internet Resource for the Study of the Early Centuries of Christianity. Web. 10 Mar. 2010. <http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/augustine.php>

The Medieval Sourcebook

The Medieval Sourcebook is an online collection of primary sources from the end of the Roman Empire to the time of the Renaissance. It males these sources available to students and others to use as sources for papers and research. These sources give us an insight to what life was like and a first hand account of major historical events, such as the invasion of England in 1066. These first hand accounts give students looking to back up their arguments a source more reliable than any other.

The Medieval Imagination

During the middle ages there were a great many things that were unknown. Literacy and travel was limited and with very few organizations with power, people weren't sure what to believe. In the middle ages a new millennium started and caused people to panic based on the unknown. This happened again 1000 years later in 1999 with the Y2K scare, showing that even though we may be a literate, intelligent, and adaptable, people will always fear the unknown. In the middle ages people began to make up creatures to match their fears. They imagined distant lands with strange creatures like dog men and people with faces on their chests. This showed that the lack of knowledge by the majority of the population, mostly serfs and slaves, caused rumors and stories to spread.

"YouTube - Inside the Medieval Mind-KNOWLEDGE-Pt.1." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QcQWhqIQfw>.

First Review - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece

Review - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece

Monday, March 22, 2010

9:38 AM

Mesopotamia

• Inventing writing - cuneiform
• Clay tablets
• First law that was ever written down - "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
• Opened up trade routes
• Old testament
• Eden is a place in Mesopotamia
• Southern Iraq
• Mesopotamia - cradle for civilization
• First writing
• First mathematics
• First law
• Architecture

• Place between Tigris and Euphrates was the perfect spot
• Need water to have civilization
• Between the rivers an Oasis - perfect for farming
• model civilization
• Fell due to invasion

Egypt

• Death obsessed
• Nile is another oasis
• Annual flood - makes the nearby land fertile
• Makes immediate area very green and luscious
• Pharaoh was the one responsible for the river flooding - entire life in Egypt revolves around the Nile and its flooding
• 4 months a year Nile water surround villages during the floods - soil is good after it recedes

Greece

• On Crete - Minos had a palace
• Lower chambers the mentor lived
• Legend says that Minos demanded a sacrifice of Athenian boys and girls
• Athenian king went and killed the beast and took Minos' daughter
• in history a great volcanic eruption changed the climate of the island plus a tsunami

• Trojan times
• Helen and Paris leave her husband the Greek king
• Greeks get together and go to troy
• Siege for ten years
• Trojan horse
• Macenie was the most powerful part of Greece at its time
• After this time - the bronze age - go into a dark ages
• Then to goes to the city state era
• Persians at this time
• Battle of thermopoly
• Then battle of Solamis
• Years later Alexander the Great - evenger
• After the Persian wars