Broad Middle ages patterns Flashcards
Politics & the exercise of power: what has changed from the 4th c. to the 14th century?
carolingines , then fracturing with feuds, the first colonies, rise monarchies w beauracratic governence
Religion: what has changed from the 4th to the 14the
century?
weak pastoral care, reform, papal monarchy,new forms of religious life
Economy & society: has the production or exchange of wealth changed over the period? Have social groups changed?
production of wealth went from ag, long distance trade, complex manufacturing, and then pax mongolia mechants, and lastly instability
Culture, Intellectual life: have learning or education changed? Have means of intellectual inquiry or expression changed? Changes in literature, the arts?
oral monastary edu, cathedral schools, courtly culture w love of unis, gothic style
when was aquainas?
1225-74
when was cluny
910
when was 1st colonies?
1096-99
when was sainte chappele built? why? Other?
in 1238-48 by anon artists for king louis IX
for king and to house “crown of throns”
high point of gothic
1050
fragmentation and rise of lordship
charlemagne?
768-814
the tain
8th cent
investitures?
broad ritual, simple & visually memorable act of bestowing power
Lord granted power and land to people
The lord stands and vassel kneels
Subservice marked by this
Usually hand something over(usually lance, staff, or battle flag, sometimes earth)
Reciprocal relationship
Sextus Aurelius Victor
320-390
Life of Constantine,
337-340
Táin Bó Cuailnge
8th cent
