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Post Classical Age: 1200-1450
Reorganization of the Post Classical WorldContinuity and Change
European Interests turned outward
Organization, Consolidationand Migration of Eurasian Steppe people
Reading Quiz
1. Identify two regions taken by the Mongol conquests of the 13th C.
2. Identify one factor that contributed to the decline of Pax Mongolica?
3. How did the development of commerce and money challenge the feudal system of exchange?
4. Why is the formation of Parliaments and the Magna Carta important in understanding the development of the West?
5. What changes were taking place specifically in Italy in the late Middle Age and why?
Western Europe
High Middle Ages
Moors Invade Europe, 711
Feudal Europe, c. 1200
Spanish Reconquista: 711-1492
Seljuk Turks (Seljuk Sultanate)• Migrated into Near East 10th Century• Established role of Sultan as protector of
Abbasid Caliph • Origins of Ottoman Turks
Pope Urban II Calls the 1st Crusade: 1095
The Western Crusades
Eastern Mediterranean in 11c-12c
Impact of the Crusades
History’s most successful failure…
Increased contact
TradeIncreased Demand for goods- economic
growthDevelopment of business opportunitiesAgricultural & commercial revolution
Exposure to goods & ideas Reawakening of Classical Age
Scientific Knowledge - Universities
Changing Social & Political Structure
Breakdown of Feudalism – rise of middle class
Political Consolidation – challenge to the church
Economy of the Medieval World
• After 1000…
Increased production & Specialization
New Business PracticesPartnerships, Credit, Banking
Agricultural Revolution:
iron plows, horse collar and horse shoes, cleared lands, crop rotation, new crops, warmer climate Population Increases…
trade & commercial opportunitiesnew urban areas Mediterranean tradeNorth & Baltic sea trade (Hanseatic League)
Greater urbanization River cities Italian cities
Hanseatic League: Merchant Guild
New Goods, New Ideas
Or in many cases… old ideas?
How was this new information received by the educated?
Medieval Universities
Major ContributorsSt Thomas AquinasAlbertus Magnus
William of Ockham
Scholasticism
Emphasis on dialectical reasoning to extend knowledge by inference, and to resolve contradictions.
deductive reasoning
Created in the 13th century by the
introduction of Aristotle's analytics, metaphysics and
natural philosophy.
sophisticated logical methods to resolve apparent contradictions
Students argue from reason, experience, and authority (Church)
Architecture, Literature & Art
Gothic Cathedrals
Notre DameChartres
ReimsCologne
Santa Maria del Fiore
Forerunners of the Renaissance
Emergence of the… “The Artist”
Giotto
Medieval MasterpiecesIn the vernacular
The Divine Comedy, 1321Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales end of 14th c , Geoffrey Chaucer
Artistic Development
High Middle Age
Creation of Modern political Europe
Centralization of powerNew Monarchies
Political Developments
England France
Norman Dukes (descendants of Charlemagne)
Battle of Hastings 1066 invasion William the ConquerorDomesday Book
1215: Magna CartaParliament
987- death of last Carolingian
Hugh Capet ElectedLord with possessions around Paris
Capetian KingsEarly 1300s centralized French Territories
Hundred Years War: increased power for both monarchies
100 Years WarSuccession crisis over French
ThroneValois (French) - cousinPlantagenet (English)- nephew
Intermittent fighting in France
Long bowUse of Canon- gunpowder
Joan of Arc
OutcomeFurther Centralization of power – England & France (Tudors AND Valois)
Iberian Peninsula
Reconquista
Muslim States - Southern
Christian States- Northern
CastileAragonPortugal
FRAGMENTATION CONTINUESGERMANY
(HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE)ITALY
Political DevelopmentsHoly Roman Empire Italy
962 German Princes ELECT Otto of Saxony Holy Roman Emperor
Expansion & centralization prevented by Papal influence
Investiture Controversy papal/monarch conflict
BALANCE OF POWERCity States
Venice, Florence, Milan, Naples
Papal Influence
Mediterranean Trade Prosperity -More Urban
Middle Ages (600-1450)
476: Fall of Rome
800: Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1095: Pope Urban II launches 1st Crusade
Germanic Invasions & Kingdoms
9th Century Invasions, Feudalism
High Middle Ages CHANGES…
Growth of Nation-States and Monarchies
Breakdown of political Feudal System
Growing Economic complexity
Changing Social Structure
Cultural Development Intellectual Curiosity
Characteristics of the High Middle AgeIncreased economic opportunities (commercial revolution), New Monarchs and the development of nation-states supported breakdown of feudal social structure by …• Granting charters and encouraging a merchant
class (mercantilism)• Staffing government-paid bureaucratic jobs with
new middle class to undercut power of nobles• Providing protections and opportunities for
peasants no longer tied to land (end of serfdom)
What roadblocks will Western Europe experience in their quest towards recovery? What Impact will these
changes have on the power and prestige of the Church?
Black DeathEnvironmental Conditions – the Great Famine
Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages
Environmental FactorsLittle Ice Age & The Great Famine
The Black Death- Bubonic Plague
Hans Holbein: Dance of Death
Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Breughel.
The Plague: Black Death1/3rd of European Population decimated
Outbreaks: 1348, 1361, 1368, 1371, 1375, 1390, 1405 ---- 18th Century
Economic and Social challenges:
Cities worst-off, villages abandoned
rise in Anti-Semitism
social unrest - rebellion
The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors
Boccaccio The Decameron
• Continued agricultural revolution: forced diversification of agriculture & development of new technologies
• Continued trade with greater demand for luxury goods
• Fewer laborers, more land: Lessening power of numerous noble aristocrats
• Greater need for centralized power/Monarch and services
• Religious Fanaticism (mystics, flagellants)- failure of Church
Positive Consequences?
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Albrecht Durer
1378 to 1417: The Great Western Schism
Papal Complex at Avignon
Gallican Church
Late Medieval Church
• Corruption– Worldliness, – simony, pluralism – sale of indulgences
• Calls for reform– John Wycliff (Lollards) – Jan Huss (Hussites)– Conciliarism
How does the development of the Western European Nation-state compare to the prosperous
empires of the West African Sudanic Empires?
By 1450, Western Europe was set search out new opportunities to grow and expand…
Monarchs directing purposeful growth of its nation-states(mercantilism)Economic prosperity (agriculture, manufacturing, trade)
New Middle Class with excess capital for investment
Rise of the West