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High Middle Ages

High Middle Ages. 1050-1270 A.D. Life in the High Middle Ages. improved technology and agriculture c rop production & population grew increased trade & business growth of towns rise of a middle class. Renewed Interest in Art & Learning. Need for more educated citizens

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High Middle Ages

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  1. High Middle Ages 1050-1270 A.D.

  2. Life in the High Middle Ages • improved technology and agriculture • crop production & population grew • increased trade & business • growth of towns • rise of a middle class

  3. Renewed Interest in Art & Learning • Need for more educated citizens • Development of first universities • Acquire “new” learning • Greek philosophy of reason conflicted with Christian acceptance of faith • kept science from moving forward

  4. Medieval Literature • Increasingly written in the vernacular (every day language) • often written as epics

  5. Architecture • Cathedrals – gothic style • symbol of wealth and religious devotion • bigger, higher (flying buttresses)

  6. Art • paintings, manuscripts, & tapestries • Gothic style – meant to inspire devotion to God

  7. Increasing Power of Monarchs • struggled to exert royal authority over nobles and churchmen • slowly building framework for European nation-states of today • Shared government • Independent of other nation-states

  8. Height of Papal Power • By 1200s, popes claimed supremacy over all other rulers • most Christians very devout with little real understanding of the religion • blind faith and acceptance • growing wealth and power led to corruption within the Church

  9. The Inquisition:1200s-1400s AD • used to stop spread of heresy in Europe • stemmed from : • real challenges to Christian Church • Spanish Reconquista • increased corruption of the church had • methods • accusations and torture • only escape was to recant

  10. Impact of the Inquisition expulsion of remaining Jews and Muslims from Spain continued conflict among nations in Europe over issue of religion

  11. The Crusades The Mediterranean at the time of the Crusades wars to recover the Holy Land from Muslims peasants and knights joined the fight 1st Crusade a success 4th Crusade attacked Constantinople

  12. Impact of the Crusades…

  13. Late Middle Ages 1270 - 1492 A.D.

  14. The Black Death • 1340s-1350s A.D. • spread through trade with the East • bacterial plague: 3 kinds • pneumonic – attacked lungs • septicemic – traveled in bloodstream • bubonic – caused fever & delirium

  15. The Black Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs • killed 1/3 of Europe’s population • seen as God’s punishment of sin • faith in Church swayed

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