Charlemagne

“Dark Ages” explores the time from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Crusades. From the fall of the ancient Roman Empire up to the Renaissance, Europe was in a constant state of war as many attempted to rebuild the Roman Empire. The Dark Ages was a period that was shadowed by famine, the Bubonic plague, political struggles, and religious persecutions. The Roman Empire began to collapse from within once the Visigoths, led by Alaric, surrounded and blockaded any entry into the city. The Roman’s…

Feudalism was the embodiment of laws and customs that ruled economic, political, and cultural order of Europe after the reign of Charlemagne when a multitude of invasions by foreign powers all over Europe caused people to be willing to give up their rights and freedom for a measure of safety and security. Castles were made to protect the population, and the knights were the men who defended it. These knights would fight with their own horses at their own expense and in exchange for protection,…

Beginning around the early 9th Century were the Carologinian education reforms, under the control of Charlemagne, King of France. He wanted a clergy that was educated and made sure every monastery and cathedral provide free education to future clergy -young boys- that should signs of succeeding in the classroom. Though after a short period of time Charlemagne would die and France would fall apart internally due to civil war, however, cathedral and monastery schools continued to…

via the lymphatic vessels to a lymph node, causing it to swell. Diagnosis is by finding the bacteria in the blood, sputum, or fluid from lymph nodes. Pope Saint Leo III Unknown – 12 June 816 AD was Pope from 795 to his death in 816.Protected by Charlemagne from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's position by crowning him Holy Roman Emperor and "Augustus of the…

1. Europe has not always been as prominent as it is today. The first civilizations to develop in 4000 BC were Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River Valley, and China. During that time Europe was still in the Neolithic Age. However, in 2000 BC, Europe suddenly went from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age and immediately to the Iron Age in a matter of 150 years. This took the first civilizations 2000 years to accomplish. The cause of this is thought to be due to the Aryan migration. For a short time…

Changes in object can be quite observable, making the changes occurring in an object pretty straight forward. For example, if you drop the glass, it breaks down into little pieces. Dropping the glass on the surface was the reason. By glass hitting the surface, the energy gave power that is too much for glass to maintain itself causing the breakdown. However, changes in histories are not that simple. Nevermind the fact that history is “His story,” making some of records unreliable, usually…

In the Middle Ages, the use of propaganda was paramount to how leaders would convince the people to join the bandwagon of their various doctrines. “‘Pagans are wrong: Christians are right indeed. Evil example will never come of me,’” (79). This excerpt from the Song of Roland is an exemplary citation of the content that would have been deemed worthy of a chanson de geste. This type of poetry is that of the French, where it was their goal to bolster their troops to defeat the pagans in the…

Trousers of various designs were worn throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, especially by men. Loose-fitting trousers were worn in Byzantium under long tunics,[20] and were worn by many tribes, such as the Germanic tribes that migrated to Western Roman Empire in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, as evidenced by both artistic sources and such relics as the 4th-century costumes recovered from the Thorsberg peat bog (see illustration).[21] Trousers in this period, generally called brais,…

disdained. The Holy Roman Empire, and more notably the ruler Charlemagne, took perhaps the most impressive part of Rome and replicated it: the…

Orlando Furioso is a is an epic poem of the Renaissance written by Ludovico Ariosto. The poem consists of cantos including different characters. There are important characters that show how woman behaved and the domestication process in connection to men. The character of Bradamante, a female Christian knight, who falls in love with a Saracen warrior named Ruggiero, can be analyzed through specific cantos in the story. This character is a figure of how woman want to be seen with a sense of…