High Middle Ages

“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion,” stated Frederick Douglas, a former slave and abolitionist. European peasants of the middle ages also knew first-had the suffering that leads to rebellion. Peasants rebelled against nobles, kings, and even the clergy, in order to reform and reorder society. The oppression of feudalism was widespread. As the valley between the rich and the poor began to expand, peasants revolted. Merriam-Webster defines a revolt as: “acting in a…

The Renaissance also led to a change in life for women. During the Middle Ages females had little rights. The church taught that they were beneath men and while they could inherit land form their husbands and fight to protect their lands when the men were away, their average day life was spent in a convent or doing homely activities. Peasant women were laborers and family caretakers. Now the upper class women gained a better education and were expected to know the classics as well as have charm,…

Have you ever wondered which country was better equipped to politically survive the middle ages, between England and Italy? These two countries saw the heighth of their society, the struggles due to catastophie, one remained centralized the other decentralized, and the many legacies brought fourth to help shape, not only their society, but also the western world. England and Italy each had a different structure of government. England used a type of system known as a “nation-state” which is” a…

Gothic Architecture is an architecture style that burgeon in Europe, intending to make a powerful emotional and spiritual impact during the High and Late Middle Ages. As the Gothic style flourished throughout other countries, Philadelphia became the country that has one of the finest Gothic revival churches. The George W. South Memorial Church of the Advocate, located at 18th and Diamond Street. The article, Church of the Advocate National Historic Landmark Nomination written by Susan Glassman…

that the soul could rest only when the body has been laid in a proper grave. The period from the fifth to the tenth century the sarcophagi fell out of use and became very limited to the wealthy and prominent Christians in Roman society. By the Middle Ages sarcophagi were rarely used and were beyond the reach of the majority of Christian members. Likewise, catacombs and underground burial places were out of date during the eighth and ninth centuries, despite the importance of the art history of…

eyeglasses, and mechanical clock. The water wheel was used for energy purposes allowing Europe to be a power-based civilization. The eyeglasses solved problems for the civilians. It allowed men to work passed the age where they started to lose their eyesight, around forty years of age. Society was helped by having g a dependable instrument, the mechanical clock. The clock brought order and control and allowed for productivity to flow. Why were “Islam” and China “falling behind” Europe in…

Short Answer Questions 1. The Investiture Struggle was a power struggle between the church and the monarchy. This rivalry had been brewing for a very long time, but it reached it’s climax in the depute between king Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. The church had recently taken the power to appoint the Pope from the king and established the College of Cardinals to do the job. Henry IV was against this idea, eventually retaliated and was promptly excommunicated. The struggle went on for quite some…

The 1850’s played host to an era of alternative art, these pieces begged for an audience instead of simply stood before one to be admired. These works are regarded now as masterworks of their time and are thought to influence whole eras of work after them, yet this was not always the case. The Pre-Raphaelites are the brotherhood known for creating these pieces, and their legacy is not un-noted, especially when trying to gain an understanding of them by reading into the appraisal written in the…

spiritual form as the soul approaches union with God” (Kroll, Bachrach and Carey 84 and 85). Such piety, where the body underwent physical and emotional suffering in order to reenact the Passion of Christ, became a well known type of worship during the middle ages. The mystics who experienced such suffering, each adhered to a set of daily tasks, which made them suitable to enter the reign of God. These daily tasks, especially of Saint Perpetua and Marie d’Oignes, could be considered performances…

Just like every coin has two sides, the period of renaissance had two sides – a good and a bad. Though it had some dark sides, one cannot deny that European renaissance was a period of growth and development. There was advancement in every aspect of human life, from human anatomy, science, technology to universe beyond. It was an era where man was rediscovered as an individual being and not just a product of church. It was a time when man could use his reason and logic to question what he is…