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In European history, the Middle Ages or Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieval period, and Modern period. The Medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, the High, and the Late Middle Ages.
Depopulation, deurbanisation, invasion, and movement of peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages. The barbarian invaders, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—once part of the Eastern Roman Empire—came under the rule of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire, after conquest by Muhammad's successors. Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with Antiquity was not complete. The still-sizeable Byzantine Empire survived in the east and remained a major power. The empire's law code, the Code of Justinian, was rediscovered in Northern Italy in 1070 and became widely admired later in the Middle Ages. In the West, most kingdoms incorporated the few extant Roman institutions. Monasteries were founded as campaigns to Christianise pagan Europe continued. The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th century. It covered much of Western Europe, but later succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars combined with external invasions—Vikings from the north, Magyars from the east, and Saracens from the south.
Between the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe plunged into a dark night of constant war, splintered sovereignties, marauding pagans, rabid crusaders and devastating plague. That anything of value arose from this chaotic muck - much less the Renaissance - is nothing short of miraculous. The History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade. 2007
Medieval Period This is a video report I made for my world literature class, it's about Medieval Period focusing on the existence of literature during the time. WORLITE DLS-CSB Ms. Angeli V. Sale (professor) SY0910 All rights regarding this video report belongs to the artist, using it without consent would be dangerous for you, BIG TIME. Haha! (no kidding) Comments would be nice but please don't be harsh. ©deltashockwave CREDITS: MarctheSharc27 (audio) DISCLAIMER: I don't take credit for the 'medieval' clips included in this video.
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Many contemporary historians and schoolbooks portray the Middle Ages as a time of poverty, backwardness, and religious arbitrariness, from which the people were freed only by the Renaissance and later the Industrial Revolution. On the other hand, there have been a few historians who paint a much different picture and insist that the Middle Ages weren't as bad as some claim, and that in some ways they were better than most other historical periods. Here are 25 facts about this “dark” and controversial era that will help you make up your mind concerning which category you belong to: the lovers or the haters of Medieval times. Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/list25 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/list25 Website: http://list25.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/list25/ Pintere...
Medieval Lives - Episode 1: The Peasant (History Documentary) Medieval Lives...Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, pious monks... Nonsense. The Middle Ages were far more entertaining than that. Legendary Monty Python star and medieval scholar, Terry Jones, has been leafing through the history books to find out what the medieval world was really like. What he discovered is a treasure trove of extraordinary stories and characters that challenges those tired traditional stereotypes. With the help of animated medieval paintings, these wonderful tales bring the Middle Ages vividly to life in all its corruption, violence and greed, courage, enterprise and learning. Anyone who enjoys Chaucer or Rabelais will be familiar with the earthy humour of the time, but few people know about th...
Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! Visit http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set to buy a set for your home or classroom. You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe was indeed having some issues, many other parts of the world were thriving and relatively enlightened. John covers European Feudalism, the cultural blossoming of the Islamic world, and the scientifi...
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Marking the midpoint in the first unit in British Literature, Mr. Osborne discusses the events depicted in The Bayeux Tapestry, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and Arthurian legend as chronicled in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae (The History of the Kings of Britain).
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B01G2BOVBO/book What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of ...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B00L2E1VE2/book The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (it is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no such continuity. He charts the different types and functions of the medieval city, its interdependence with the surrounding countryside, and its often fraught relations with secular authority. T...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B005NKK7OQ/book Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source: confessors' manuals; medical compendia that discussed many illnesses; commentaries on canon law; and theological commentaries on the Sentences ofpeter Lombard. Although most historians of medieval culture focus on only one or two of these kinds of source, a broader comparison reveals that medieval writers held surprisingly diverse opinions about what magic was, how it worked, and whether it was ever legitimate to use i...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B01BPXLN9C/book Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the medieval period is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerptsor whole documents wherever possiblefrom the most widely studied historical texts. This much-anticipated fifth edition features a larger format, as well as enlarged type, to make the collection more reader-friendly. Study questions have been added at the end of each section to help students focus on key points in the text. Volume I includes a new selection from the Rule of St. Benedict and a new translation of Einhard's The Life of Charlemagne, as well as a color photo section introducing students to fascinating medieval art such as a seventh-century stone...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B000Q6GX9K/book In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in Western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. This collection represents the kind of international collaboration of research teams, centres and individuals that is required to begin to study the source materials adequately. The first book in English to discuss this fascinating material in the century since the Dunhuang library was discovered, the text provides a unique and fascinating interpretation of Chinese medical history.
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B014GA1P62/book Christianity in the later Middle Ages was flourishing, popular and vibrant and the institutional church was generally popular in stark contrast to the picture of corruption and decline painted by the later Reformers which persists even today. Norman Tanner, the pre-eminent historian of the later medieval church, provides a rich and authoritative history of religion in this pivotal period. Despite signs of turbulence and demands for reform, he demonstrates that the church remained powerful, self-confident and deeply rooted. Weaving together key themes of religious history the Christian roots of Europe; the crusades; the problematic question of the Inquisition; the relationship between the church and secular state; the centr...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B00C2NSSJI/book The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty Xxv, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through a Nubian perspective, rather than on the more common Egypto-centrism perspective, and the coverage is based on the latest and best archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Newly created maps of the general area and its specific regions and place names and a photospread showing important related features of the region are included. A detailed chronology provides a timeline of historical events, and an introductory narrative sha...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B005NKEF4E/book This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as in modern times. Investigating agricultural mentalitiesfirst at a local level and then for England as a whole, Dr Stone argues that human action shaped the course of the rural economy to a much greater extent than has hitherto been appreciated, and challenges the commonly held view that the medieval period was domina...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B00D79W86K/book This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John M. Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and eventsboth natural and humanthat defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective, Riddle includes northern and eastern Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic states. Each, he convincingly shows, offered values and institutionsreligious devotion, toleration and intolerance, laws, ways of thinking, and changing roles of womenthat presaged modernity. In addition to traditional topics of pen, sword, and word, the author explores other driving forces such as science, religion, and technology in ways that previous text...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B01DPPPX7G/book Take Robin Hood, Richard the Lionheart, Gamelyn, William Wallace and other legends from the colourful, dangerous medieval period to the tabletop with Lion Rampant a new set of rules designed for fighting medieval skirmish games. Ideal for players who wish to collect medieval miniatures and paint the pageantry without wanting to muster huge forces or spend time learning complex rules, this game allows players to game actual historical battles or to delve into the archives of Hollywood to embark on more over-the-top pulp style clashes.
Castles: The Magnificence Of the Medieval Era - History Documentary Films. A castle is a kind of fortified structure constructed in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility. Over the approximately 900 years that castles were constructed, they took on a great lots of kinds with several different features, although some, such as drape wall surfaces and arrowslits, were commonplace. A European development, castles come from the 9th and 10th centuries, after the fall of the Carolingian Empire led to its region being separated amongst individual lords and royal princes. These nobles developed castles to control the area promptly bordering them, and were both protective and offending frameworks; they offered a base where raids can be launched as well as security from enemi...
Don't forget to hit the Like and Subscribe videos to make sure you receive notifications about upcoming Literature, Grammar, Reading, Writing, and World History lessons from MrBrayman.Info. Below is the outline of the slides used in the lesson: Western Europe in the Medieval Period Collapse of the Roman World Fall of Rome in 476CE Roman legions and bureaucrats called back to Rome for its last defense Division of the empire into western and eastern halves Continuity of Roman Empire in Byzantium (east) until 1453CE Collapse of the Roman World Latin—Roman language, continuity—became the "Romance Languages"—Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian Roman Catholic Church—centralized church power in Rome Collapse of the Roman World Power Vacuum—a sudden loss of centralized political and m...
Dr Bob Mills, UCL History of Art Historians tend to be reticent about applying the phrase 'sexual orientation' to periods before the nineteenth century, but should we be so quick to dismiss the concept? Focusing on depictions of virgins and sodomites -- two seemingly opposing categories -- this talk explores how medieval encounters with sex were shaped by concepts of space and orientation. Image: Rutland Psalter, c. 1260. London, British Library, Add 62925
This video looks at the scientific research to answer three basic questions: 1) Was the Medieval Warm Period global? 2) Was it warmer than today? 3) And what does this all mean anyway? I examine the internet feud over the hockey stick and the various myths and misinterpretations about the Medieval Warm Period that seem to be rife on the Internet. My sources for the myths are blogs and videos; my sources for the facts are scientific papers. CORRECTION AT 5:51: The graph without recent temperatures is not the work of a blogger after all, it comes from the researchers themselves. This does not change the fact that this graph was used by the Daily Mail to incorrectly infer that the MWP was warmer than today, while the graph the researchers used to show recent temperatures was not shown. SOU...
The stereotype of the medieval peasant is a toothless, filthy, ignorant wretch. Or were they? Terry Jones discovers that peasants were in fact literate, emancipated, highly political and legally savvy, house proud and healthy, and responsible for the peasants revolt of 1381.
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