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Organizing Ch 11
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Stages of Postclassical Development
Fragmentation Viking raids Manorialism Local, personal , political Serfdom Reciprocal obligations Innovations in agriculture The Church: Political and Spiritual Power Clovis Popes – organization Monasticism and its functions Religion and secular Universities
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Stages of Postclassical Development 2
Charlemagne and his successors Frankish Martel The Great Fragments Treaty of Verdun , 843 HRE?
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Stages of Postclassical Development 3
Economic and Urban vigor Result of Agricultural improvments Towns and literacy Education
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Stages of Postclassical Development 4
Feudal Monarchies and Political Advances Vassals Personal relationship Some more, some less powerful – Lords William the C, 1066, England Changes
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Stages of Postclassical Development 5
Limited Government Forces that did it 1215, Magna Carta Parliaments, representative bodies Monarchs and power
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The West's Expansionist Impulse
Germanic knights Iberia [Reconquista] Vikings
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Stages of Postclassical Development 6
West’s Expansionist Impulse – Crusades Urban II, 1095
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Stages of Postclassical Development 7
Religious Reform and Evolution Gregorian reform , 11th Monasteries The VII Investiture controversy Mendicants, 13th century St. France, St. Clare, St. Dominic
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Stages of Postclassical Development 7
The High Middle Ages Creative tensions Christianity v university Political structures v monarchies
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Western Civilization Define Christendom
Coherent? National histories and allegiances Western v national features Other societies
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Western Culture in the Postclassical Era
Theology: Assimilating faith and reason Greek philosophy Abelard Bernard of Clarivaux Debate in universities St. Thomas _ reason and faith together Roger Bacon Magical rituals and pagan festivals persist
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Western Culture in the Postclassical Era
Popular Religion Christianity Raoul de Cambrai Evolution of belief
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Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries
Rural life Peasants v landlords Trade and Banking Money? Banking, insurance merge Hanseatic League Capitalism
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Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries
Growth of Trade and Banking Merchants relatively free Guilds [purposes]
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Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries 2
Limited Sphere for Women Women lose Religion , Eve, nuns?
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The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis
Widespread warfare Population outstrips agriculture Black Death form 1348 Signs of Strain Aristocracy – military purpose? Foot soldiers ? Church and rigidity
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