Ch20high West Euro Flashcards
Western Europe inspired by dream of unification similar to
Rome
1200s Marco Polo visits court of
Khubilai khan
962 pope john Xii presented imperial crown to
Otto of saxony I (birth of Holy Roman Empire)
In the high middle ages the state that seem to have the most potential for a re-centralized state was
Holy Roman Empire
Single obstacle of the Holy Roman Empire rise so was
On going conflict with papacy
Investiture contest centered on
Appointment of church officials by Imperial authority
Investiture contest presented
Struggle between church and State for power
Investiture contest reached a peak with Pope Gregory vii and
Henry iv
Frederick Barbarossa attempt to gain control over Lombardy blocked by
Popes
Who said quip of “Neither holy nor Roman nor an empire”
Voltaire
987 French nobles chose who as their king
Hugh Capet
987 hugh Capet crowned king of France but ..
Took centuries for French to build powerful centralized state
Which state most centralized in early stages
England
1066 William of Normandy conquered
England
Bayeux tapestry depicts
Norman invasion and conquest of England
Italy political structure
Series of city states and principalities
Reconquista took place in
Iberian peninsula
Not a factor of increased agri support
Government financial support
1300 population
79 mil
Hanseatic league trading network operated in
North and Baltic Sea
Medieval structure phrase
Those who pray those who fight those who work
Eleanor of Aquitaine famous for
Support of Roman poets and troubadours
Guilds of high Middle Ages
Almost always admitted women
Central philosophy of high middle ages was centralized on rediscovery of
Aristotle
St Thomas aquinas
Believed it was possible to prove rationally that God exists
Most pop saint
Virgin mary
Dominicans and Franciscans
Attacked materialism
Thomas of celano though “father of the poor” was
St Francis
Not true of cathars
Only hope was church for corrupt work
Newfound land 1000ce discovered by Scandinavian seafarer
Leif Ericsson
Not crusading order
Franciscans
11th century roger Guiscard
Captured Sicily from Muslims
Last surviving outpost in Spain
Granada
First response in attempt of Pope urban ii appeal for crusade came from
Peter the hermit
Pope urban ii
Launched crusades 1095
Only Crusades that re-captured Jerusalem was
First crusade
Jerusalem captured in 1187 by
Saladin
Not a consequence of the fourth Crusade
New spirit of cooperation between Constantinople and the Western Europe
Fourth Crusade managed to capture
Constantinople
Crusades
Increased trade between Mediterranean east and west