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The Medieval World

The Medieval World. An Overview. Dr Alex Russell Alexander.Russell @warwick.ac.uk Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-5 pm or by appointment. The ‘Middle Ages’. Europe c. 500-1500, from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. The Roman Empire. 6.5 million km2 at greatest extent (C2nd AD)

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The Medieval World

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  1. The Medieval World • An Overview Dr Alex Russell Alexander.Russell@warwick.ac.uk Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-5 pm or by appointment

  2. The ‘Middle Ages’ • Europe c. 500-1500, from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance

  3. The Roman Empire • 6.5 million km2 at greatest extent (C2nd AD) • 50-60 million living under pax romana • Mediterranean = mare nostrum • Capital at Rome

  4. Scale model of ancient Rome in the time of Constantine

  5. Constantine the Great, 272-327 AD (bits of a colossal sculpture in the Capitoline Museum, Rome)

  6. The Decline of Rome • Decline of Roman Empire from C3rd • 410 Rome sacked by Visigoths • waves of ‘barbarian’ invasions (or migrations?) - Huns, Lombards, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Franks • 476 last western emperor stands down • BUT eastern (Byzantine) empire survives

  7. The Carolingians • C8th Carolingian dynasty established in Frankish realm • Charlemagne (r. 768-814) Shrine of Charlemagne (C13th)

  8. Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope, 800

  9. Carolingian Empire Dark blue = Frankish realm in 714 CE Light blue = Extent of empire in 814 CE

  10. Instability of 10th Century

  11. Monarchies in western Europe 1154 to 1314

  12. Italy around 1200

  13. Expansion of Christianity in Eastern Europe

  14. The Christian conquest of Spain

  15. Flux in Byzantine Empire Brown line = Imperial frontier around 628 CE Red line = Imperial frontier around 1025 CE Green line = Imperial frontier around 1143 CE

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