Late Middle Ages

write well, speak well and be able to function as responsible citizens. What mattered was that the clergy lost its monopoly over learning, many people could have the right to be education”. (Yuxia 43) Urbanization granted merchants, artists, and some middle-class townspeople the opportunity to read and write, which allowed for more ideas and culture to spread, since a wide variety of education triggered humanistic…

4. “The notion that the later Middle Ages was a calamitous, miserable period has been vastly overstated.” Before examining whether this assertion is exagerated or not, it is important to understand where this view comes from. “Struck by a plague that carried off between a fifth and a half of its population, shaken by Ottoman Turks who conquered Constantinople and moved into the Balkans, buffered by internal wars that threatened the very foundation of its political life, Europe shuddered.”1…

War, medicine, and religion broadly summarizes the Middle Ages. Bloodlines and culture clashed as the Roman empire fell, and time stood still as large, Eastern european civilizations crumbled with systematic disaster. With no political script to follow, for the first time townsmen experienced a sense of unpreparedness as they saw their rulers fall and be conquered by invaders. Throughout the Middle Ages not only was a monumental shift occurring culturally and politically, but specifically in…

Germany left nothing behind. This upsetting population transformation coming into the late middle ages rooted immense changes in European society and way of life. Succeeding centuries of a rise in population, the population of the world experienced a disastrous decrease and would not restore for more than one hundred years later (Schulz Richard,…

Empire. Over about a 1000 years span the views of Christianity and its apocalyptic views will change from about 400CE to 1000CE. This can be demonstrated over many different intervals of time starting with the fall of the roman empire, going to the middle ages and then ending around the time…

Starvation became a serious problem in Europe in the 14th century because of the black plague. The black plague 's effect reached terms to where all of the merchants refused to sell food in fear of the disease 's transmission. Also, due to the overwhelming precedence of its spread, the wiped out populations which had reached almost 50% left crops unattended. Unfortunately, as well, were heavy rains which had ruined the crops which were already growing in its over-exhausted land. With running out…

resistance to it….”(Clark). Citizens, most affected by the plague, were the ones with a compromised immune system(Dewitte). Dewitte continues to explain, “....the risk of mortality during the Black Death increased with adult age….”(Dewitte). This goes to show that as a person’s age increases, so does the risk of being diagnosed with this frightful…

subject, who made it, and who paid for it. These questions help with the understanding of why the art was made and find the era that the art belongs. We have studied many styles and eras, and I believe this painting, Madonna and child, was created in the late medieval period, perhaps in the early thirteen-hundreds. The painting is from the early renaissance in Florence, Italy. It is a step forward from breaking away from the maniera greca style. Cimabue and Giotto were one of the first painters…

Despite the immense loss that Europeans endured during the Black Death, the political, economic, and religious realms of their society were altered in such a way that ameliorated the lifestyles of the lower classes and guided Europe out of the Medieval Ages. Political matters during the mid-fourteenth century were affected by the Black Death’s arrival in Europe. European Kings and their nobility made it a mission to conquer as much land as they physically could in order to expand their…

Without The Renaissance, Where Would We Be? Although many people think the Renaissance period is simply an era of rebirth, it ultimately shaped the world into what we know today. What is the significant effect of the Renaissance? P.J. O’Rourke stated “Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don’t count modern civilization.” This statement refers to the vast amount of advances made during the period. The long-lasting achievements in technology, science, mathematics, geography…