Notes from PowerPoint on Chapter 8

Key Points from 8.1

•MIDDLE AGES. What are they in the middle of?

•Great Potential

•Germanic Kingdoms

•Islam Battle of Tours, 732

•Age of Charlemagne

•Revival of Learning

•Charlemagne’s Legacy.

•New Attacks Vikings

Key Points from 8.2

•New System of Rule. FEUDALISM

– powerful lords divide their land to lesser lords

–Lord granted his vassal a FIEF

•Lords, Vassals, Knights.

–Monarch-->Dukes, Counts-->vassals-->peasants

•The World of Warriors.

–Occupation: knight, 7-21, dubbed

–Jousts, castles, noblewomen, chivalry, troubadours

•The Manor. Lord-serf relation: bound to the land

–This was a small, self-sufficient world

•Daily Life. Life was harsh

–35yr life expect., seasons, celebrations, beliefs

Key Points - 8.3, Medieval Church

•Spiritual and Worldly Empire.

–Reigion-Woven into fabric of medieval world.

–Eastern and Western. Pope, wealthy, powerful

–Many bishops and archbishops like nobles…

–Sacraments, canon law, excommunication, interdict

•The Church and Daily Life.

–(Chaucer.) Local priest, village church, tithe

–Treatment of women; equal, yet weak (Eve) and/or pure (Mary)

•Monks and Nuns.

–BENEDICTINE rule. Benedict, 530:poverty, chastity, ob

–Centers of learning, Bede. St. Patrick St. Augustine

•Hildegard. Nun who kings listened to…(declined)

•Reform Movements. Problems: luxury, corruption

–900s Cluniac reforms (Cluny, France) Fransicans, Dom

–No nobles, simony. Church will pick church officials

•Jews. Sephardic, Ashkenazim, anti-Semitism

8.4 Economic Expansion-Change

•Agricultural Revolution.

•Trade Revives.

•Commercial Revolution.

•Role of Guilds.

•City Life.