6. A Crusade is Called
• Religion and Reform
• The Byzantine Empire
– Turks
• Battle of Manzikert,
1071
– Alexius I Comnenus
(1056 – 1118)
• East-West Schism, 1054
• Council of Clermont,
1095
– Urban II (1042 – 1099) “Urban II Preaches the 1st Crusade,”
Livre des Passages d'Outre-mer, 15th C
9. Why go on Crusade?
• Cluny Reforms
• Holy War
• Knighthood
– Peace of God
– Truce of God
• Relics
• Pilgrimages
– Purgatory
• East-West Schism
• 2nd Sons
14. Feudalism
• Late Roman Empire
• Medieval Class
– Fight
– Pray
– Work
• How it works
– Lord
– Vassal
– Feudal Bonds
– Fief
– Subinfeudation
Tres Riches Heures du
Duc de Berry, 1410
15. Medieval Society
• Peasants
– Serfs
• Manorial System
– Latifundia
– Demesene
– Tithe
• Agriculture
– Plow
– Horse Collar
– Three-field System
• Nuclear Family
• The Church
17. The High Middle Ages
• Aristocracy
– Chivalry
– Tournament
• Church
– Church courts
– Boniface VIII, Unam
Sanctam, 1302
– Philip IV
• Serfs
• Prosperity & Trade
19. The High Middle Ages
• Towns
• Bourgeoisie
• Guilds
• Cathedrals
– Romanesque
– Gothic
• Vernacular
– Troubadours
– Chanson de geste
– Courtly Love
– Song of Roland, c. 1100
22. Medieval Learning
• Cathedral
– Schools
• University
• Bologna, 1088
• Liberal Arts
• Scholasticism
• Peter Abelard (1079 –
1142)
• St. Thomas Aquinas (1225
– 1274)
– Summa Theologica
• Roger Bacon (1214-1292) Andrea di Buonaiuto, The Triumph of St.
Thomas Aquinas, c. 1365
MAP 10.6 Pilgrimage Routes in the Middle Ages. Some Christians sought spiritual solace by
traveling to pilgrimage sites. Many went to local shrines honoring the Virgin Mary, but Jerusalem,
Rome, and Santiago de Compostela were the most desired locations.
MAP 10.7 The Early Crusades. Pope Urban II launched the Crusades to recapture the Holy Land
from the ‘‘enemies of God,’’ a call met with great enthusiasm in Europe. The fighters of the First
Crusade massacred the inhabitants of Jerusalem and established the crusader states.
Settlements of the Teutonic Knights c. 1230
MAP 8.3 A Typical Manor. The manorial
system created small, tightly knit
communities in which peasants were
economically and physically bound to their
lord. Crops were rotated, with roughly onethird
of the fields lying fallow at any one
time, which helped replenish soil nutrients
(see Chapter 9).
MAP 9.1 Medieval Trade Routes. Italian cities and Flanders were the centers of gradually
expanding trade in Europe. They fostered the exchange of goods from the Byzantine Empire and the
Far East with those of various regions of Europe. The decline in the level of violence over time greatly
helped trade.
The Gothic Cathedral. The Gothic cathedral was one of the great artistic triumphs
of the High Middle Ages. Shown here is the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. Begun
in 1163, it was not completed until the beginning of the fourteenth century.
MAP 9.2 Intellectual Centers of Medieval
Europe. Products of the High Middle Ages,
universities provided students with a basic
liberal arts education and the opportunity to
pursue further studies in law, medicine, or
theology. Courses were taught in Latin,
primarily by professors reading from books.
There were no exams in individual courses,
but students had to pass a comprehensive
oral exam to gain a degree.
University Classroom. This illustration shows a university classroom in fourteenthcentury
Germany. As was customary in medieval classrooms, the master is reading
from a text. The students vary considerably in age and in the amount of attention they
are giving the lecturer.