1. The Time of Knights and Castles:
The Middle Ages

2. Periodization Early Middle Ages: 500 – 1000
High Middle Ages: – 1250
Late Middle Ages:

3. Europe in the 6th century

4. The Medieval Christian Church
played the part previously taken by the Roman Empire.
monasticism:
Set up monasteries around Europe
Charged a tax called the ‘Tithe’ – 10% of money
the church controlled about 1/3 of the land in Western Europe.
tried to curb feudal warfare  only days a year for combat.

5. A Medieval Monk’s Day

6. A Medieval Monastery: The Scriptorium

7. Illuminated Manuscripts

8. The Manor System
For safety and for defense, people in the Middle Ages formed small communities around a central lord or master. No more Pax Romana.
They had a castle, a church, farmland and a village.

9. Life on the Medieval Manor
Serfs at work

10. Common Pasture
(or "Green")

11. What is Feudalism?
A system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord.”

12. Feudalism
A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and military service.

13. Carcassonne: A Medieval Castle

14. Parts of a Medieval Castle

15. Gothic Architectural Style
Pointed arches.
High, narrow vaults.
Thinner walls.
Flying buttresses.
Elaborate, ornate, airier interiors.
Stained-glass windows.
“Flying” Buttresses