The Middle Ages Europe 500 to 1300 CE.

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The Middle Ages Europe 500 to 1300 CE

Western Christendom I. Western Christendom: Constructing a Hybrid Civilization A.  Western Europe was on the margins of world history for most of the postclassical millennium.  1.  it was far removed from the growing world trade routes  2.  European geography made political unity difficult  3.  coastlines and river systems facilitated internal exchange  4.  moderate climate enabled population growth B.  Political Life in Western Europe , 500–1000  1.  traditional date for fall of western Roman Empire is 476 C.E.  2.  with Roman collapse:   a.  large-scale centralized rule vanished   b.  Europe ’s population fell by 25 percent because of war and disease   c.  contraction of land under cultivation   d.  great diminution of urban life   e.  long-distance trade outside of Italy shriveled up   f.  great decline in literacy   g.  Germanic peoples emerged as the dominant peoples in West (Huns attacked outlying reaches of Europe which led to Germanic kingdoms attacks on Rome.) see next slide   h.  shift in center of gravity from Mediterranean to north and west

Huns—artificially deformed heads (use of boards on heads of babies)

Love of All things Roman C.  survival of much of classical and Roman heritage 1.  Germanic peoples who established new kingdoms had been substantially Romanized already 2.  high prestige of things Roman   a.  Germanic rulers adopted Roman-style written law 3. several Germanic kingdoms tried to re-create Roman-style unity    a.  Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor -  Christmas Day 800  c.  another revival of Roman Empire with imperial coronation of Otto I of Saxony (r. 936–973)-Holy Roman Empire

The Early Church in Europe D.  Society and the Church, 500–1000 1.  within these new kingdoms:  a.  highly fragmented, decentralized society  b.  great local variation  c.  landowning warrior elite exercised power 2.  social hierarchies  a.  lesser lords and knights became vassals of kings or great lords  b.  serfdom –peasants bound to land-owed payments/svces to Lord of Manor 3.  Catholic Church was a major element of stability  a.  hierarchy modeled on that of the Roman Empire  b. top down strategy  c.  conversion of Europe ’s non-Christians  d.  most of Europe was Christian (with pagan/cultural elements or area) by 1100 4.  Church and ruling class usually reinforced each other  a.  also an element of competition as rival centers of power  b.  right to appoint bishops and the pope was controversial (the Investiture conflict)

Changes E. Accelerating Change in the West, 1000–1300 1.  a series of invasions in 700–1000 hindered European development  a.  Muslims, Magyars, Vikings  b.  largely ended by 1000 2.  Warming trend after 750 3.  High Middle Ages: time of clear growth and expansion  a.  European population in 1000 was about 35 million; about 80 million in 1340  b.  opening of new land for cultivation 4.  growth of long-distance trade, from two major centers

Changes continued 5. European town and city populations rose a.  Venice by 1400 had around 150,000 people b.  still smaller than great cities elsewhere in the world c.  new specializations, organized into guilds 6.  new opportunities for women a.  a number of urban professions were open to women b.  widows of great merchants could continue husbands’ business c.  opportunities declined by the fifteenth century d.  religious life: nuns, Beguines, anchoresses (e.g., Hildegard of Bingen and Julian of Norwich) 7.  growth of territorial states with better-organized governments a.  kings consolidated their authority in eleventh–thirteenth centuries b.  appearance of professional administrators c.  some areas did not develop territorial kingdoms (Italian city-states, small German principalities)

Crusades F. Europe Outward Bound: The Crusading Tradition 1.  medieval expansion of Christendom after 1000  a.  occurred at the same time that Byzantium declined  b.  clearance of land, especially on eastern fringe of Europe  c.  Rationalized Empire building  d.  Europe had direct, though limited, contact with East and South Asia by thirteenth–fourteenth centuries 2.  Crusade movement began in 1095  a. wars at God’s command, authorized by the pope, for which participants received an indulgence (release from penalty for confessed sins)  b.  amazingly popular; were religious wars at their core 3.  most famous Crusades aimed to regain Jerusalem and holy places  a.  many waves of Crusaders to the Near East  b.  creation of four small Christian states (last fell in 1291)

Impact of the Crusades G. Crusades had a significant impact on Europe a.  Crusaders weakened Byzantium b.  popes strengthened their position for a time c.  tens of thousands of Europeans made contact with the Islamic world d.  hardened cultural barriers e. Re-conquest of Iberian Peninsula

Routes of Crusades

The West in Comparative Perspective II. Catching Up A.  the hybrid civilization of Western Europe was less developed than Byzantium , China , India , or the Islamic world  1.  Muslims regarded Europeans as barbarians  2.  Europeans recognized their own backwardness  B.  Europeans exchanged with/borrowed from more advanced civilizations to the east  a.  European economies reconnected with the Eurasian trading system  b.  scientific, philosophical, and mathematical concepts from Arabs, classical Greeks, India, China c. Compass, papermaking, gunpowder 3.  Europe was a developing civilization like others of the era 4.  by 1500, Europe had caught up with China and the Islamic world; surpassed them in some areas  5.  New innovations-iron horseshoes, heavy wheeled plow  a.  Agriculture-crop rotation/3 field system  b.  non-animal sources of energy-windmills, watermills  c.  technological borrowing for warfare, with further development-cannons with gunpowder  d.  Europe developed a passion for technology

Politics B.  Politics 1.  Europe crystallized into a system of competing states  a.  led to frequent wars and militarization  b.  stimulated technological development 4.  rulers were generally weaker than those to the east  a.  royal-noble-ecclesiastical power struggle allowed urban merchants to win great independence d.  development of representative institutions (parliaments)

Reason and Faith C. Tension between faith and reason developed 1.  intellectual life flourished in the centuries after 1000 a.  creation of universities from earlier cathedral schools b.  scholars had some intellectual freedom at universities 2.  in the universities, emphasis on ability of human reason to understand divine mysteries a.  Reason to law, medicine, and world of nature/development of “natural philosophy” (study of nature) 3.  search for classical Greek texts (especially Aristotle) a.  found in Byzantium and the Arab world b.  twelfth–thirteenth centuries: access to ancient Greek and Arab scholarship 4.  deep impact of Aristotle a.  his writings were the basis of university education which Western European thought between 1200 and 1700 c. Thomas of Aquinas integrated ideas of Aristotle and logic in Christian ideas 5.  Islamic world had deep interaction with classical Greek thought a.  massive amount of translation in ninth–tenth centuries b.  encouraged a flowering of Arab scholarship between 800 and 1200 c.  caused a debate among Muslim thinkers on faith and reason d.  Islamic world eventually turned against natural philosophy

Reflections III. Remembering and Forgetting: Continuity and Surprise in the Worlds of Christendom A.  Many features of medieval Christendom have extended into the modern era.  1.  crusading motivated Spanish and Portuguese explorers  2.  merchants’ freedom helped lead to capitalism and industrialization  3.  military conflict  4.  ongoing “faith and reason” controversy  5.  Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic division of Christianity remains  6.  universities