High Middle Ages

Celeste Wiest Professor Williams Music History Section 1 27 October 2017 Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1528) is a Renaissance Courtesy Book or Book of Manners that deals with etiquette, conduct and philosophy. Drawing inspiration from those before him, Castiglione uses ancient Greek and Roman ideas to express Renaissance ideals such as humanism, Music of the Spheres, and emotion relayed through music. Since the Renaissance is a rebirth of archaic ideas, Castiglione…

I was the king of England in the Middle Ages. Our civilization was extremely advanced. England mostly worked with iron, gold, and silver for tools and weapons. We had a variety of foods to eat. They included fish, grains, mutton, pork, and beef. Mutton is sheep if you did not know. We…

The Crusades started all the way back in 1095 in the Holy Lands. Leading up to the Crusades, the Muslims rapidly expanded across the middle east and into Jerusalem and into a place called the Holy Lands. The Holy Lands are a very important religious part of the world, where there is great religious value for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. So when the Seljuk Turks, who were Muslims and were in control of the Holy Lands in 1095, limited the Christians access to their religious sites many were…

Imagine after a hard day of work you settle into an uncomfortable straw bed ridden with lice and other bugs. Modern plumbing, sewage, electricity, etc. are just some of the unpleasantries that peasants dealt with during the Middle Ages in Europe. Peasants lived in houses called crucks with straw mattresses being their only furniture. Holes in the wall, were so called windows, they did not have glass. The walls were made of mud, which was a good insulator in the winter, however, the walls…

(Seward-31). Bernard saw the Knights as “brother-Knights” and submitted them to the same rigors as any Cistercian monk. The Knights were extremely well funded and established a hierarchy system in which to govern themselves. Bernard secured for the Knights high ecclesiastical privileges, and they…

Trade affected migratory patterns by making permanent stay possible for the people who were migrating. People found ways to sustain themselves in a place they stopped on along the way and never made it to their actual destination. They stayed and populated that area that they saw that it was benefiting them. The movement of people to urban areas impact everyday life by making them more dependent on manufactured resources. For example people that moved to an urban area stopped harvesting food on…

protected the people of the village were. A successful medieval European castle would need to include a tactical location, unbeatable defenses, an abundant town, and deluxe amenities in order to survive. Survival was the key to staying alive in the middle ages, with all the items above people had a greater chance of living longer than…

Gavin Jarvies Part I: The Outline Throughout my criminology study I have been studying many interesting things and topics. Things like how criminals think and why they create the crimes they do, different kinds of crimes, etc, But there was a study lesson I picked up some information from. Some of that information was about crime in the olden days which has taught me about criminology back then and I found it crazy how much the video taught about how much crime was different compared to the…

Middle Ages The period of history from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance, people do not know whether to call it the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages. This period of time should be called the Middle Ages. This period should be known as the Middle Ages because feudalism, a unique and useful form of social organization, was created during this time. Each social class did something and got something in return. According to the illustration by Stanley M. Burstein and Richard Shek, “Peasants worked…

persecutions are not the only reasons that are believed to be the reason that a lot of Christian art is not found, it could also be due to the fact that there was not many followers of the Christian religion and those that were followers were in the middle class and did not have the money to be able to create artworks that could endure for many years. “The earliest Christians worshiped in their homes; then, when they became politically secure enough, the Christians built churches……