Quiz

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Quiz

• Question 1 What was the term for the medieval
  political system that involved the exchanges of
  land or services and involved obligations at
  every level of society.
• Question 2 What were the three
  positions/people that had the most power in the
  Middle Ages?

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Quiz

• Question 3 What two positions/people of power
  had the most power in the High Middle Ages?
• Question 4 What was one tool/way that Popes
  used to gain power for themselves in the Middle
  Ages?

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Quiz

• Question 5 List one cause AND one effect of
  the crusades.

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The High Middle Ages

• A Culture of Order

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Review

• What were some words used to describe the Early
  Middle Ages?
• What are some words that might summarize the High
  Middle Ages, so far?

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Timeline

• Time The High Middle Ages
• Culture The High Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
1500 A.D.
1000 A.D.
1300 A.D.
500 A.D.
High
Early
Late
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The High Middle Ages

• In a nutshell
• Middle
• High
• Order Replaces Chaos
• Things get better
• Learning
• Literature and Art
• Agriculture
• Trade

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Learning

• The Need for Education
• Church Office
• Priests, Bishops
• Royal Office
• Bureaucrats
• Government jobs
• Universities
• Big Cities (Paris, Oxford, Bologna)

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Life of a University Student

• University life offered few comforts. A bell
  wakened students at about 5 A.M. for prayers.
  Students then attended classes until 10 A.M.,
  when they had their first meal of the dayperhaps
  a bit of beef and soup mixed with oatmeal.
  Afternoon classes continued until 5 P.M.
  Students ate a light supper and then studied
  until time for bed

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Life of a University Student

• Since medieval universities did not have
  permanent buildings, classes were held in rented
  rooms or in the choir loft of a church. Students
  sat for hours on hard benches as the teacher
  dictated and then explained Latin texts.
  Students were expected to memorize what they
  heard. Women were not allowed to attend the
  universities, a fact that seriously affected
  their lives and futures.

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The Medieval Classroom
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Learning

• Liberal Arts Education
• Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music, Grammar,
  Rhetoric, and Logic
• Scholasticism
• The attempt to combine scientific reason with
  Christian religion.
• Thomas Aquinas
• Both faith and reason lead to the same truth,
  that God rules over an orderly universe.

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Medieval Literature

• Heroic Epics
• Song of Roland
• Poem of Cid
• Poetry
• Divine Comedy by Dante
• Dantes Inferno
• Fiction
• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Excerpts from the Canterbury Tales

• The Knight
• A knight there was, and he a worthy man,Who,
  from the moment that he first beganTo ride about
  the world, loved chivalry,Truth, honor, freedom
  and all courtesy.

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Excerpts from the Canterbury Tales

• The Monk
• A monk there was, one made for mastery,An
  outrider, who loved his veneryA manly man, to
  be an abbot able.
• The Parson
• There was a good man of religion, too,A country
  parson, poor, I warrant youBut rich he was in
  holy thought and work.He was a learned man also,
  a clerk,Who Christ's own gospel truly sought to
  preach

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Excerpts from the Canterbury Tales

• The Plowman
• With him there was a plowman, was his
  brother,That many a load of dung, and many
  anotherHad scattered, for a good true toiler,
  he,Living in peace and perfect charity.He loved
  God most, and that with his whole heartAt all
  times, though he played or plied his art,And
  next, his neighbor, even as himself.

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Agriculture

• Agricultural Technology
• Wind mills
• Water Mills
• Three-Field System
• Results
• More food
• More
• Population doubles (37 to 74 million)
• Growth of Towns.

Spring
Fall
Fallow
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The Growth of Towns

• Why now?
• Overcrowding
• Escape feudal roles
• How did they form?
• Charters
• Fugitives

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Importance of Towns

• Middle class begins to form
• Distribution of wealth
• Local government begins to form
• Trade increases
• What had the economy been centered on in the
  Early Middle Ages?

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Champagne Fairs

• A gathering of tradesmen and manufacturers in a
  single place
• The first

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Review

• What are some words you could use to describe the
  High Middle Ages?
• Better
• Creative
• Growth