Sunday, April 18, 2010

Notes on the Middle Ages

We have social mobility. In the middle ages, there was no social mobility. If you were born a peasant, then you would die a peasant.

Monsters

  • They did not know if they should or should not preach to the dog heads. They believed they should because they had human souls.
  • They had debates that if they did see these dog heads than they should preach to them.

Church

  • The lead authority was the Church.
  • People learned how to read and write from the monastery.

Classes/Orders

  • Those who pray
  • Those who fight
  • The rest, those who work

CAPETIAN DYNASTY

  • close allied relationship with Church
  • Paris became the capital

1095 - year Pope Urban II called for crusade

  • Muslim armies were more organized and stronger
  • First Crusade is a failure

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