NOTES- Chapter 15 Powerpoint - Monmouth Regional High School
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Middle Ages and the PlagueIntroduction
• High Middle Ages (1000-1300)
Period of political, economic, intellectual, and
artistic expansion
• Late Middle Ages/Renaissance (1300s-1700s)
Hundred Years’ War
Black Death
Schism within church
Ottomans capture Constantinople
Renaissance (art and learning)
Beginnings of nationalism
Otto I and Revival of Empire
• Otto I “the Great” (936-973)
Put family in charge of Bavaria, Swabia, Franconia
Invaded Italy
Defeated Hungarians at Lechfeld, 955
Secured German borders
• Enlisted church in rebuilding program
Bishops and abbots made agents of the king
Pope John XII (955-964)
-Crowned Otto emperor, 962
Church under royal authority
First Crusade
• Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus
appeals for aid against the Turks
• Pope Urban II (1088-1099)
Council of Clermont
First Crusade risky, but approved
• Motives
Religion, but also greed
Remove restless nobility
East/West reconciliation
Sparked anti-Jewish riots in Europe
• Jerusalem captured on July 15, 1099
Later Crusades
• Second Crusade (1147-1149)
Dismal failure
• Jerusalem recaptured in 1187 by Saladin
• Third Crusade (1189-1192) – failure
Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor
Richard the Lion-Hearted, English King
Philip Augustus, French King
• Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)
Also a failure
• Crusades did stimulate Western trade and
cultural interaction with the East
Towns and Townspeople
• Towns contained 5% of the population
• Charters given to towns by feudal nobles
Charters guaranteed towns’ safety
Gave them independence
• Serfs took their skills to the towns
Serfs found freedom and profits
Chance for a higher social rank
Lords in the countryside offered more
favorable terms of tenure in hopes of keeping
serfs on land
Towns and Townspeople Image
Rise of Merchants
• First merchants may have been serfs
• Traveled together in caravans and convoys
• Merchants at first disliked
Outside traditional social groups
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Nobility, clergy, peasantry
• Formed own protective associations
• Merchants allied themselves with kings
Against traditional nobility in countryside
• Towns facilitated transition to national
government
Schools and Universities
• Bologna
First important Western university, 1158
Paris another important early university
• Scholasticism
Sense that truth is already known so the job
of students was to summarize traditional
authorities and to elaborate on traditional
arguments using pros and cons to draw
conclusions
• Logic and dialectic were the main tools
Society
• The Order of Life
Nobles
Clergy
Peasants
• Medieval Women
Image and Status
Life Choices
Working Women
Medieval Social Order: Nobles
Those Who Fight
• High nobility were great landowners
Lower nobility were petty landlords
• Soldiering was the nobleman’s profession
Nobility celebrated strength, courage, warfare
• BUT… the nobility was in economic and
political decline
Plague and famine
Changing military tactics
Infantry and artillery take place of cavalry
Alliance of wealthy towns with king
Medieval Social Order: Clergy
Those Who Pray
• Clergy was an open estate by training
• Two basic types of clergy
Regular (regula, rule)
- Monks who lived according to ascetic rule:
Franciscans, Dominicans
Secular (saeculum, world)
- Clergy who worked among the laity
Medieval Social Order: Peasants
Those Who Work
• Largest and lowest social group in Middle Ages
Their labor supported all others
Owed their lord a certain amount of produce
• Two basic changes in peasantry in Middle Ages
Increasing importance of single-family holding
-Land in single family through generations
Conversion of serf’s dues into money payments
-Change permitted revival of trade
-Facilitated rise of towns
Medieval Women
• Most medieval women were workers in fields, trades,
and businesses
• Church created unrealistic view of women
Subjugated housewife or confined nun
Many women were neither
• Women’s legal rights varied
• Girls were apprenticed in a trade
Appeared in most “blue-collar” trades
Prominent in food and clothing industries
Belonged to guilds, could become masters
• Went to school – gained vernacular literacy
But excluded from universities
Growth of National Monarchies
• England and France: Hastings (1066) to
Bouvines (1214)
William the Conqueror
Popular Rebellion and the Magna Carta
Philip II Augustus
• The Hohenstaufen Empire (1152–1272)
Frederick I Barbarossa
Frederick II
Growth of England
• Death of Edward the Confessor in 1066
Harold Godwinsson chosen as new king
• William of Normandy (d. 1087)
Battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066
• Creation of a strong monarchy
• Kept Anglo-Saxon tax system
• Practice of court writs
• Parleying- Anglo-Saxon tradition
• Balance of monarchical and parliamentary
England- The Magna Carta
• Henry II (1154-1189)
Eleanor of Aquitaine – Angevin empire
• King John (1199-1216)
• Magna Carta – “Great Charter”, 1215
Limits on royal power
Rights of privileged to be represented in
important issues like taxation
Rights eventually spread
France
• Philip II Augustus (1180-1223)
Norman conquest – national monarchy
French victory at Bouvines, July 27, 1214
• Louis IX (1226-1270)
Efficient French bureaucracy
Gave subjects right to appeal
French associated their king with justice
“Golden Age of Scholasticism”
Hohenstaufen Empire (1152-1272)
• Frederick I Barbarossa (1152-1190)
Re-established imperial authority
Launched new phase of battle with the pope
• Frederick II (1212-1250)
Ward of Pope Innocent III
German princes became petty kings
Frederick was excommunicated four times by
the Catholic Church
Collapse of German monarchy with his death
Establishment of electoral college in 1257
Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)
• Causes
Dynastic, territorial, economic rivals
• English military superiority
Incompetent French leadership
• Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
• Consequences
Devastated France
Awakened French nationalism
Sped transition from feudal monarchy to centralized
state
Peasants bore heaviest burdens
The Plague- “The Black Death”
• A weakened Europe
Overpopulation
- Population of Europe doubled from 1000-1300
Economic depression
Famine
• Plague followed the trade routes west
Venice, Genoa, and Pisa by 1348
• Two-fifths of Europe died
Death rates highest in urban areas
Black Death – Consequences
• Shrunken labor supply
Wages increased
• Decline in value of noble estates
• Urban areas hit especially hard
But eventual prosperity
Prices soared for manufactured and luxury
items
• Church also weakened
• Nobility and church on defensive
Both had limited power over monarchy
Challenges of the Catholic Church
• Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
Unam Sanctam
Temporal authority subject to power of church
Conflict with Philip the Fair (1285-1314)
• Papacy in Avignon, (1305-1377)
• Great Schism, (1378-1417)
Support along political lines
Council at Pisa in 1409 – now three popes
Council at Constance, 1414