High Middle Ages (1050-1400) Flashcards
Capetian Dynasty
900s-1300s, succeeded by Valoi, Hugh Capet (987-996), France
highlights
Universities, nation-states, 1054–Great Schism
1059–Popes are now elected by cardinals
1066–Battle of Hastings–Norman invasion of England
1077–Investiture Controversy–who is responsible for electing bishops, lay or church
1081–Seljuk Turks beat Byzantium in Asia Minor (Manzikert?)
1095 Call of First Crusade (1291 last Crusade)
Calamitous 14th Century–100 years war, 1350 black plague, trade decreased because they all died, Pope lives in avignon, not Rome, peasant revolts, feudalism disintegrating
Great Schism
1054
College of Cardinals
1059, vote for Popes
Call to crusade
1095 Pope Urban II
Crusades
1095-1291 Only successful one is first--capture Jerusalem, create crusader states Edessa Antioch Tripoli Jerusalem
3rd Crusade
3rd has big kings–Richard, Philip II, Frederick Barbarossa
4th Crusade
4th–captured Constantinople (Pope Innocent III called it–most powerful Pope)
incentive to crusade
incentive was indulgence, crusading popularized that concept