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The Early Middle Ages

The Middle Ages (400-1500 CE)

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Europe went through DISORDER and CHANGE!

Development of Western Culture Classical heritage of Rome

Christian beliefs

Customs of Germanic tribes

Middle Ages or Medieval Period – Middle of what?

German Invasions c. 500 C.E

Running From Huns

South: Ostrogoths, Vandals

England: Angles and Saxons

Germany: Franks

Spain: Visigoths

Europe c. 500 C.E.

Anglo-Saxonsc.420 CE

EnglandFrom Denmark

& Germany

Conquer Britons

Splintered kingdoms

Increasing Power of Church

Priests are educated class St. Benedict – monasticism

Convert Germanic tribes St. Patrick – Ireland St. Boniface – Germany

Serve religious & social needs Power over kings & nobles

Excommunication

Frankish Rulersand the Rise of Feudalism

Clovis and the Merovingians

Clovis (481-511)

Conquered France (called Gaul)

Converted to Christianity

Founder of Merovingian dynasty

Invasions disrupt trade

Lords and Knights provide protection Manors

Towns decline

Feudalism strengthened

Rise of Feudalism

Manorial System (economy)

Manor

Large farming estate

Support Lord and knights

Peasants (serfs) work land

Part for self /part for lord

Medieval Manor

Feudalism (political and social system)

Lords – leader/higher rank Grant land (fief) to vassal

Vassal lower lord promises loyalty and military service to lord

Knights

Serfs Peasants legally bound to land

Knights

Heavily armored

horses

lances

Disadvantages

expensive

long training

Chivalry

Code of behavior

Courage, fairness, loyalty, courteous

Carolingian Dynasty

Charles Martel (The Hammer)Battle of Tours (732 CE)

Pepin the Short

Gets Pope’s support

Becomes King of Franks

Took Italy from Lombards

Gives land to Pope (Papal States)

Son is Charles…the Great

Charlemagne 768-814 CE

Wants to unite all Christian lands and create a “new Roman Empire”

Includes most of Western Europe

Anointed Holy Roman Emperor Crowned on Christmas day in 800

Byzantines protest

HRE lasts from 800 to 1806 CE!!

more Charlemagne…

Government and Culture

All must accept Christianity

Supports learning• Churches, roads, and schools

Roaming judges check on empire

New Bible

Which figure – Charlemagne or Pope Leo III - is depicted as more powerful in this French illustration from the 1300s?

Why might that be so?

Pope Leo III

Charlemagne

Charlemagne and Harun al-Rashid exchanging gifts - Franks: Spanish horses, cloaks, hunting dogs Abassids: silks, perfume, a water clock, and an albino elephant named Abul Abbas

Yep, still Charlemagne

Death in 814 843 - Treaty of Verdun splits empire among 3 grandsons

France, Germany, Italy

Progress ruined by Vikings Feudalism follows

InvasionsVikings by boat c. 700 to 1100 CE

From Scandanavia

Attack all over Europe• Along coast and sail up rivers

Settle in Russia, Britain, France

Magyars on horseback c. 893 CE

From Hungary

Pillage from Greece to Spain

Knights stop invasions

Both convert to Christianity St. Stephen I First King of Hungary

The

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