HIS101 – R. Whisonant, Instructor

 

PART III

 

High Middle Ages (1050-1270)

Rise of Nation States

England

Romans

Angles + Saxons

Vikings – Danes

Kingdom of Wessex

Alfred the Great(d.899)

Strong army/navy

Danelaw

1066 Norman Invasion

King Edward the Confessor

Harold

King of Norway

William duke of Normandy

Vikings – France

William the Conqueror

Battle of Hasting

Bayeux Tapestry

Dividend England

Shires

Sheriffs

Domesday Book

John I
Barrons

Magna Carta(The Great Charter)

France

Charlemagne

House of Carolingian collapsed

Loius VI

St.Louis IX

Germany

Duchies, dukes

Otto the Great(d.973)

Powerful German church

Holy Roman Emperior

1356 Golden Bull

  • Emperors – elected
  • Interfere with Dukes

Church in the High Middle Ages

High Point of Church Power

Popes + Rulers

Era of great devotion

Sacraments

Excommunication

Seven Sacraments

Baptism, confirmation, matrimony, extreme unction, Eucharist, penance, ordination

Problems, not greatly respected

Cluny, Monastary

Pope Nicholas II (1059)
College of Cardinals

Gregory VII elected 1073

Gregorian Reforms

End control of the church by layman

Investiture Controversy

Right to choose bishops

Rulers or Popes?

Henry IV of Germany

Excommunicated

Canossa, Italy

Concordat or Worms (1122)

Compromise

Crusades

Holy land

1092 – Byzantine Emperor

Pope Urban II

Council of Clermont in 1095

Great response

First Crusade 1096 – 1099

First two commoners

Peter the Hermit

Magyars

Turks

3rd attempt Jerusalem (1097)

Knights of Europe

Crusader Kingdoms

Second – 1147 –49

Louis VII

Conrad III
Eleanor of Aquitaine

Third Crusade known as Kings Crusade

Richard Lion-Hearted

Philip Augustus

Frederick Barbarossa

Fourth 1202-04

Sack of Constantinople

Impact of Crusades

Rise of Heresies

Inquisition 1233

Waldensians

Peter Waldo

Franciscans

St. Francis of Assisi

Dominicans St. Dominic

Pope Innocent III (1198-1216)

Fourth Lateran Council 1215

Jews

Late Middle Ages 1250 – 1400

Period of Decline

Economic Problems

Soil Exhaustion

Bad weather

Famine

Inflation

Silver shortage

Debasement of coins

Black Death

Asia

Sicily 1347

One-third population

20 million

Religious hysteria

Peasant uprising

Jacquerie

Hundred Years War (1337 – 1453)

France and England

William the Conqueror

Characteristics of the War

Long stretches of inactivity and periods of truce

French typically avoided battle

1328 – Edward III
English Victories

Crecy (1346)

Poitiers (1356)

Longbow

Agincourt (1415)

King Henry V

Joan of Arc

Orleans (1429)

Inspired French

Nationalism

Gunpowder

Decline of the Church

Growing power

Reforms

Babylonian Captivity

Great Schism

Rise of Powerful heresies

Babylonian Captivity (1309 – 1373)

Pope Boniface VIII

Philip IV

Taxation

Excommunication

Compromise

Another conflict

Imprisoned French Bishop

Disastrous consequence

Clement V

Avignon

Great Schism

1377 – Gregory of Rome

1378 – Urban VI

Cardinals

elected new pope

Clement VII

Urban – Rome

Clement – Avignon

Pisa – 1409

Elected a new Pope

Now three Popes!!!!!

Council of Constance (1414 – 1417)

New Heresies

John WycliffEngland

Oxford U.

The Bible was the only source

John HussBohemia

Represented both a religious revolt and national revolt (Czechs of Bohemia)

Huss burned at the stake in 1415

Renaissance (1350 – 1600)

Classical Greece and Rome

Transitional period

Wealth

Cultivate the arts

Bolster their own prestige

Glorification of human talents

Individualism

Artists

Mathematical analysis of space

Anatomy

Observation of nature

Vernacular literature

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Cervante’s Don Quixote

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince (1513)

Leonardo da Vinci

Raphael

Michelangelo

Da Vinci

Mona Lisa (1502)

Last Supper (1495 – 1498)

Broad interest

Studying fossils

Human skelton

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel

Last Judgement

David, Moses

pietas

Raphael

He possessed neither Leonardo’s intellect nor Michelangelo’s power, but an appealing serenity.

Most critics consider him the master of perfect design and balanced composition

Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus

Rooms – Vatican

The Reformation

Protestant revolution

Luther 1517

What happened?

  • Kings/Nobles
  • Urban Middle Class
  • Radical views
  • Peasant movement
  • Reformers

Nepotism

Martin Luther

Conclusion

St. Paul (1:17)

Wittenberg

Indulgences

Ninety-five Theses

Luther’s views

Salvation thru personal faith

Read and understand the Bible

Gutenberg

Frederick, Elector of Saxony

Safe from 1518-19

Charles V (1521)

Diet of Worms

Refused to recant

“Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise”

New Testament – German

Lutherans, eventually called Protestants (those who protested against the established church)

Term became generic for all supporters of the Reformation

Peasant support turned violent

1524 German Peasant Revolt

Religious Wars

Catholic vs. Protestant

Peace of Augsburg (1555)

whoever rules, his religion”

Spread of Reformation

John Calvin

Paris 1530’s

King Francis I

Calvinism

Predestination

Geneva

Theocracy

France

Huguenots

Civil War

Edict of Nantes

England

Political and personal

Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon

Ferdinand and Isabella

Anne Boleyn

From Roman Church

Church of England

Catholic Counter Reformation

Pope Paul III

Council of Trent

Jesuits

Powers of Inquisition

Index of Prohibited Books

Era of Expansion (1450 – 1750)

The Iberian Golden Age

Portugal and Spain

Economic, religion, political

  • hunger for land
  • trade with East
  • eliminate middleman
  • Christian religion
  • National competition

Why Europe?

  • Military
  • Naval Superiority

Portugal

  • Prince Henry the Navigator
  • Nautical studies
  • Decline

Spain

  • Stumbled on its empire
  • Portugal planned
  • Cristoforo Colombo
  • Queen Isabella
  • Theory – West

1492 Caribbean

land, metals

New World

Decline

Impact on Spanish Conquest

  • Natives
  • The most significant factor that made it possible for a relatively small number of Europeans to colonize
  • Blacks
  • Price Revolution
  • Coins
  • Population
  • New foods to Europe
  • Seek Fortune

France

England