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Page 1: EARLY MIDDLE AGES. Brief history of the Early Middle Ages (the Middle Ages begin with the fall of Rome to the Renaissance) Dark Ages (550-750) and monasticism

EARLY MIDDLE AGES

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Brief history of the Early Middle Ages(the Middle Ages begin with the fall of Rome to the Renaissance)

• Dark Ages (550-750) and monasticism

• Charlemagne—ruler, diplomat, and playboy (768-814)

• Leo III crowned him on Christmas Day 800. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

• It has been said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire.

• However, it lasted until the Austrian/Hungarian Empire, which fell in the

aftermath of WWI.

• Charlemagne upset Byzantine emperors with his delusions of Roman grandeur.

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• Charlemagne didn’t get along with the Byzantine Emperor but seemed to have gotten along with the Muslims. However, Charles Mantel, grandfather of CM, stopped the spread of Islam into Europe in 732 leaving Muslims in the south of Spain.

• CM became protector of the holy shrines in Holy Lands

• Learning during the time of CM—who couldn’t write—but he brought education to Aachen

• Set-up a head-start system for his kingdom—literacy was a major concern

• Decree of 798—local leaders were to start schools

• Feudalistic society—France, Germany, Low Countries, Italy pyramidal social structure

• Music: Gregorian Chants or plainsongs

• Literature: Beowulf, Chanson de Roland, and Nibelungenlied

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Romanesque style• Romanesque style (Roman-like)—1050-1200

• Stone rounded-arches

• Heavy walls—and ceilings with roof in masonry…not wood

• Tympanum

• Pilgrimages and reliquaries—movement of masses like Mecca and the Muslims

• Feudal society in which the church and state linked resources

• Urban II ordered the first crusade to free Jerusalem

• Great discoveries of Greek and Roman art, literature, and culture

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A moment of double Middle Age Zen

• Crusades (1st Crusade 1095) were designed to free the Holy Lands from the infidels who had been living there for centuries. The West didn’t want them on holy land. Think of one of Osama bin Laden’s complaints….

• Where did the West discover their Greco-Roman culture? Hint: in the Arab world

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Tympanum from Ste-Madeleine 1120

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Ste. Foy ca. 1050

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St. Foy

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Virgin and Child ca. 1150-1200

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St. Etienne c. 11th (spires 13th century)

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Cathedral of Pisa ca. 1063

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ca. 1174

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Baptistery ca. 1153

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Cimabue’s Madonna and Child

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St. Sernin ca. 1250