High Middle Ages

Women throughout history have had many roles. In the Middle Ages, women were seen as a problem, where they did not have a place in society, or were pushed into fitting into certain roles. Alisoun in The Wife of Bathe’s Tale and Prologue addresses this problem directly, by saying that she herself does not fit into the “perfect” role of Mother Mary, but is instead a powerful woman who desires obedience from the men she is surrounded by. Writing like The Wife of Bathe’s Tale and Prologue was…

On August 24, 410 A.D, Rome fell into the Dark Ages. In the 3rd century A.D. new leaders were taken over by Visigoths. The beginning of the Middle Ages is called the “dark ages”, which is a Latin term for middle ages which means “medieval”. The dark ages were total chaos, the streets were coated with blood from their own people. Europeans starved the Romans and people were dying left and right. People said that Rome was the mother of the world because it had the most of the supplies which…

Renaissance was a revolutionary cultural era of expansion and growth that spanned from the 13th to the 17th century. It was the result of growing wealth in Italy after the Middle Ages, and caused art, architecture and engineering, science, and mathematics to flourish. Many different events led to the cultural shift in Europe after the middle ages, one of them being the rise of wealth in Italy. The Italian banking family Medici is often considered one of the main contributors to the start of the…

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata is the most important Catholic place of worship in the city of Otranto. The cathedral, built on the ruins of a village, a Roman domus, and an Early Christian temple, was founded in 1068 by the Norman bishop William. It is a synthesis of different architectural styles including Byzantine, Christian, and Romanesque. It was consecrated on 1 August 1088 during the reign of Pope Urban II from the papal legate Roffredo, archbishop of Benevento. In August 1480,…

Sejal Singh Byus Honors 10 Period 4 24 November 2015 Eastern and Western Europe During the Middle Ages Although Europe has been recognized as a dominant and powerful force throughout history, there were distinct parts of the country that struggled to maintain stable ground. Eastern Europe, specifically the Byzantine Empire, was able to devise methods that upheld their economic structure, while Western Europe was unable to recover and advance from its internal issues. The ability to maintain a…

The Late Middle Ages was a period which lasted from about 1300-1500 (14th – 15th century), the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. The late Middle Ages is reflected mainly in Europe. They were often called as the Dark Ages, even though even they were not all bad. Late Middle Ages brought the first crisis of European feudal society. The late Middle Ages had been a time of climate change, famine, war and poverty, In terms of the cooler climate, although the further…

The Black Death was one of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history. Between the years of 1346 and 1353, the plague killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The Black death had originated in the plains of Central Asia, it quickly travelled along the Silk Road, until it reached Crimea in 1343. It was then spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe being carried by fleas living on black rats. Symptoms of the black death included victims having fevers, abdominal pain, feeling…

There were many great Renaissance artists in the 14 and 1500’s. Previously, the Black Death killed thousands of Europeans. That chaos caused art to be slowly forgotten. In 1475, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born. Michelangelo showed his extreme knowledge and talent in his many wonderful works of art and literature that are still marveled at today. He was a painter, architect, poet, and sculptor that was also called “The Master of All Arts.” Michelangelo showed to be the most…

The Middle Ages were, in a certain way, a time of darkness. Stories and history were primarily passed on through the ages by word of mouth. However, this changed when a man, a monk named Bede, took pieces of history and wrote books describing these historical events. Bede was able to learn through his monastery’s library and became the Middle Ages’ greatest scholar. Without him, our knowledge of this time period might have been limited and historical events lost. Around the time of Bede’s birth…

different then it is now. Some of the basic knowledge about these times were shown in the movie, but there is no real way to show how these times truly were. The “commoners” of the medieval times were also known as peasants. As some may call it the dark ages, these times were obviously much harder for the commoners than for the richer people. They tend to own very…