middle ages political, religious, economic developments
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The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:313: edict of Milan325: Council of Nicaea
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:313: edict of Milan325: Council of Nicaea410: Rome sacked by Visigoths under Alaric
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:313: edict of Milan325: Council of Nicaea410: Rome sacked by Visigoths under Alaric354-430: St. Augustine
413-426: Augustine writes City of God
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:313: edict of Milan325: Council of Nicaea410: Rome sacked by Visigoths under Alaric354-430: St. Augustine
413-426: Augustine writes City of God451: Council of Chalcedon
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:451: Council of Chalcedon451-453: European invasion of Attila the Hun
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:451: Council of Chalcedon451-453: European invasion of Attila the Hun476: Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus;
rules as “king of the Romans” (fall of the West)
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:451: Council of Chalcedon451-453: European invasion of Attila the Hun476: Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus;
rules as “king of the Romans” (fall of the West)489-493: Theodoric establishes kingdom of
Ostrogoths in Italy
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:489-493: Theodoric establishes kingdom of
Ostrogoths in Italy529: St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte
Cassino
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:489-493: Theodoric establishes kingdom of
Ostrogoths in Italy529: St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte
Cassino533: Justinian codifies Roman law
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:489-493: Theodoric establishes kingdom of
Ostrogoths in Italy529: St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte
Cassino533: Justinian codifies Roman law532-537: building of Hagia Sophia
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:489-493: Theodoric establishes kingdom of
Ostrogoths in Italy529: St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte
Cassino533: Justinian codifies Roman law532-537: building of Hagia Sophia622: Muhammad’s flight from Mecca (Hegira)
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:622: Muhammad’s flight from Mecca (Hegira)732: Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Poitiers
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:622: Muhammad’s flight from Mecca (Hegira)732: Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Poitiers754: Pope Stephen ii and Pepin iii ally
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:622: Muhammad’s flight from Mecca (Hegira)732: Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Poitiers754: Pope Stephen ii and Pepin iii ally800: Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman
Emperor
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:622: Muhammad’s flight from Mecca (Hegira)732: Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Poitiers754: Pope Stephen ii and Pepin iii ally800: Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor843: Treaty of Verdun: the sons of Louis the Pious
(Charlemagne’s son): Charles the Bald, Lotharius, and Louis the German
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:843: Treaty of Verdun: the sons of Louis the
Pious (Charlemagne’s son): Charles the Bald, Lotharius, and Louis the German
Late 9th – 10th centuries: Vikings!
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:843: Treaty of Verdun: the sons of Louis the
Pious (Charlemagne’s son): Charles the Bald, Lotharius, and Louis the German
Late 9th – 10th centuries: Vikings!885: Cyril and Methodius bring Cyrillic alphabet
to Bulgaria
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:843: Treaty of Verdun: the sons of Louis the Pious
(Charlemagne’s son): Charles the Bald, Lotharius, and Louis the German
Late 9th – 10th centuries: Vikings!885: Cyril and Methodius bring Cyrillic alphabet to
Bulgaria962: Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman
Emperor
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Timeline:843: Treaty of Verdun: the sons of Louis the Pious
(Charlemagne’s son): Charles the Bald, Lotharius, and Louis the German
Late 9th – 10th centuries: Vikings!885: Cyril and Methodius bring Cyrillic alphabet to
Bulgaria962: Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman Emperor1054: East / West divided by Great Schism
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Feudalism.As an economic system, it grew up as a response
to FRAGMENTATION and DECENTRALIZATION during the early middle ages.
It has ramifications for society, politics, military, and economics in the middle ages.
Feudal societies grow up where a Lord or Prince is dominant and where the highest virtues become TRUST and FIDELITY
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?
The two institutions of feudal society:
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?
The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?
The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE
And
FIEF
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?
The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord
And
FIEF
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?
The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord
And
FIEF: goods with which the vassal can serve
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?
The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord• A promise to refrain from action that could jeopardize
the lord’s wellbeing
FIEF: goods with which the vassal can serve
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord• A promise to refrain from action that could jeopardize
the lord’s wellbeing• Promise to perform personal services on request
FIEF: goods with which the vassal can serve
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?The two institutions of feudal society:
VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord• A promise to refrain from action that could jeopardize
the lord’s wellbeing• Promise to perform personal services on request• Promise to provide military aid on request
FIEF: goods with which the vassal can serve
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?The two institutions of feudal society:VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord• A promise to refrain from action that could
jeopardize the lord’s wellbeing• Promise to perform personal services on request• Promise to provide military aid on requestFIEF: goods with which the vassal can serve• Cash (liquid assets)
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Highest virtues are TRUST and FIDELITY: why?The two institutions of feudal society:VASSALAGE: “fealty” to a lord• A promise to refrain from action that could jeopardize
the lord’s wellbeing• Promise to perform personal services on request• Promise to provide military aid on requestFIEF: goods with which the vassal can serve• Cash (liquid assets)• Real property
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
Difficulty in maintaining peace in a feudal society: the payoff for loyalty versus the acquisition of wealth and property
At the local level feudalism creates a distinction between the MANOR and SERFDOM
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
The High Middle Ages: 1000-1300• Emerging national monarchies (France,
England, Germany)• Western church is centered on the Pope in
Rome• Church established as authority independent
of secular government (compare the time of Constantine!)
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
• Church established as authority independent of secular government (compare the time of Constantine!)
• The Investiture Struggle 11th-12th centuries– Begins with many centuries in the West in which
secular leaders would appoint (or sell) church offices of bishop or abbot to figures who would be faithful to the secular lord.
– Selling of offices is known as “simony”
The Middle Ages:political, religious, and economic developments
• The Investiture Struggle 11th-12th centuries– Bishops and abbots were very often already part of the
secular government• Literate and literate resources• Already established families
– Gregorian reforms• Henry iv becomes boy king of Germany 1056• 1059 the College of Cardinals is created to elect and protect
Papacy• Pope Gregory vii elected 1073• Declares that the Pope alone can make or depose churchmen