The High and Late Middle Ages Section 4: Learning and Culture Flourish Medieval Universities –Clergy schools evolve into universities –Student life –Liberal Arts (7) –Women and education Religion in Education –Conflict between faith and reason/learning –Scholasticism –St. Thomas Aquinas

Medieval Literature –New Languages used –Song of Roland – heroic epic –Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri –Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer Architecture –Romanesque to Gothic Art –Stained Glass Windows

Section 5: A Time of Crisis Black Death – Bubonic Plague –Spread from Rats/Fleas in Asia –Carried by Traders –Began in Europe - Approximately 1347 –Passed through Italy, Spain, France –Theories – God’s Punishment, Jewish plot –Impact on the Economy –More than 25 Million dead –Page 274

Upheaval in the Church Pope Clement moves the Church in – Schism, Two Popes 1417 – Council at Constance returns church to Rome Corruption in the Church Heresy – Jan Hus (Hussites) John Wycliffe

The Hundred Years’ War – –France and England –England’s claim to the French Throne (1337) –England’s early victories –New Weapons Crossbow, Longbow, Cannon –Joan of Arc (France) – 17yr old Peasant woman France battles back, Joan of Arc captured and killed Martyr, Sainthood –Impact of the War End of Knighthood England and France – sense of nationalism