What do the sources for this course tell us about Violence in the middle ages?
The spread of Christianity and Catholicism was quite popular and at a large scale throughout the middle ages. One of the main evidence of violence was due to the several religious movements during this time. A huge amount of war was also created since the struggle between several nations for power was extreme as they wished to gain more land to succeed to have more power however the only way to achieve this was through invasion. These powerful groups of violence consisted of The Barbarians. The Barbarian invasion throughout Europe, also known as the Migration Period, occurred between 300 to 700 CE. Great overpowering changes came way through this invasion within …show more content…
The Visigoths were not only known for their violence but also remembered for the meaning of their name “strength, and rightly so, for there was never a people on earth that succeeded in exhausting the Roman empire to such an extent” . The Visigoths were under the rule and influence of Alaric I. Before their invasion, the Goths attacked and raided the Roman Empire on several accounts before the third century, “The first known attack came in 238, when Goths sacked the city of Histria at the mouth of the river Danube. A series of much more substantial land incursions followed a decade later,” The Goths seemed to become quite involved the roman way of life and became Romanised, however this did not last very long. Inequality was placed on the goths as the romans enforced high taxes, corruption and just over all mistreated. This did not go down well with the Goths and eventually caused trouble in Roman Empire. Although the Goths did go to seek help from the Romans, they were given a shortage of food and mistreated to the extent into child slavery, “When the barbarians after their crossing were harassed by lack of food, those most hateful [Roman] generals devised a disgraceful traffic; they exchanged every dog that their insatiability could gather from far and wide for one slave each, and among these were carried off also sons of the
The spread of Christianity and Catholicism was quite popular and at a large scale throughout the middle ages. One of the main evidence of violence was due to the several religious movements during this time. A huge amount of war was also created since the struggle between several nations for power was extreme as they wished to gain more land to succeed to have more power however the only way to achieve this was through invasion. These powerful groups of violence consisted of The Barbarians. The Barbarian invasion throughout Europe, also known as the Migration Period, occurred between 300 to 700 CE. Great overpowering changes came way through this invasion within …show more content…
The Visigoths were not only known for their violence but also remembered for the meaning of their name “strength, and rightly so, for there was never a people on earth that succeeded in exhausting the Roman empire to such an extent” . The Visigoths were under the rule and influence of Alaric I. Before their invasion, the Goths attacked and raided the Roman Empire on several accounts before the third century, “The first known attack came in 238, when Goths sacked the city of Histria at the mouth of the river Danube. A series of much more substantial land incursions followed a decade later,” The Goths seemed to become quite involved the roman way of life and became Romanised, however this did not last very long. Inequality was placed on the goths as the romans enforced high taxes, corruption and just over all mistreated. This did not go down well with the Goths and eventually caused trouble in Roman Empire. Although the Goths did go to seek help from the Romans, they were given a shortage of food and mistreated to the extent into child slavery, “When the barbarians after their crossing were harassed by lack of food, those most hateful [Roman] generals devised a disgraceful traffic; they exchanged every dog that their insatiability could gather from far and wide for one slave each, and among these were carried off also sons of the