Questions • I’m happy to answer questions clarifying material that you don’t understand; however, • Questions should be on topic (come to my office hours if you’d like to discuss something we didn’t cover in lecture) • Raise your hand and wait to be called on (the same applies if you have the answer to one of my questions) • We have a certain amount of material that we have to get through in each lecture, so I will suspend questions if we are running behind
High Middle Ages (1100-1300) - Period of rapid demographic and economic growth - 36 million c. 1000; 72 million c. 1300 Late Middle Ages (1300 to 1500) - Demographic and economic contraction - Famine and plague - War (Hundred Years War, Italian Wars, Wars of the Roses) - Crises in the Church - Rise of nation-states - Rise in literacy and education rates - Italian Renaissance - Protestant Reformation
The Church Papal Monarchy Papal States (central Italy) Tithe Canon law Penance Excommunication Interdict Fall of Acre – 1291
The Emergence of the State Gens (people) Res publica Aristotle’s Politics