The Middle Ages
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
11:29 AM
Futile System
- King
- Dukes or barons
- Knights
- 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
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