8. • By 800, probably 60 percent of the
people of western Europe were serfs.
• By 1200, free peasants had almost
disappeared.
9. • Lords and knights had
to protect serfs.
• Free peasants had no
protection.
10. Those that work
• A serfs had to farm the
lord’s land for him as well
as their own land.
• Corvee: serfs had to work
for free for the lord,
usually 3 days a week.
• ie barns, ditches, castle
building.
11. Those that work
• Rent: had to give 20 percent of your
food to the lord,
• Fee: money or food to use the lord’s
pond, pasture, or woods.
• Fee to use the lord’s mill and oven to
make your bread.
12. Those that work
• Serfs could not leave the manor without
lord’s permission
• They could not marry without lords
permission.
13. Those that work
• Serfs also had to pay 10 percent of
everything to the Church
16. Nobles
Those that fought
• The nobles were the kings, dukes,
counts, barons, and even bishops and
archbishops with large estates holding
all political power.
17. Feudalism
A political, and social system based
on vassals (loyalty and military
service).
Military
service
Military
service
60. The Revival of Trade
• Silver mines in England allowed the
King to make coins.
• Gold and silver mines on the continent
allowed French Kings and German
emperors to also make coins.
61. The Revival of Trade
• The Crusades encouraged demand
for luxury goods, which the Venetians
happily supplied.
62. The Revival of Trade
• The Italian city states of Venice and
Genoa happily supplied luxury goods.
63. The Revival of Trade
• Flanders in the Netherlands became the
center of trade in Northern Europe.
65. The Revival of Trade
• By the twelfth century, a regular exchange
of goods had developed between Flanders
and Italy.
66. • The counts of Champagne encouraged this
trade by holding fairs every year in their
towns.
67. The Revival of Trade
• Slowly, the money economy
reemerged throughout Europe.
68. The Revival of Trade
• Trade merchants moved back into the
old Roman cities. Craftspeople and
artisans followed.
69. The Revival of Trade
• By the 10th Century, Lords and Kings
demand for weapons, furniture, cloth gave
rise to a new class of crafts people.
70. The Revival of Trade
• They developed skills to make goods
that might be sold by the merchants.
71. • The merchants and artisans called
bourgeoisie, from the German burg: a
walled enclosure.”
72. • Bourgeoisie :middle class, also plural in
construction members of the middle class.
• Business owners, trade merchants,
teachers, doctors, lawyers.
73. The Revival of Trade
• A large medieval trading city had about
5,000 people
• By 1200s, London 40,000
• Venice, Florence, Genoa 80000
74. The Revival of town and city
life
• Townspeople needed freedom to trade with
their own laws and could pay for them.
Money, artisan
goods
75. The Revival of town and city
life
• Lords and kings, could make money and sold
the townspeople the liberties they wanted.
Money, artisan
goods
76. • Medieval cities developed their own
governments for running the affairs of
the community.
77. Guild System
• From the eleventh century on,
craftspeople organize themselves into
guilds, or business associations.
83. • The first university in northern Europe was
the
• University of Paris.
84. King Philip II of France
1179 –1223
• gave a charter to the
University of Paris (The
Sorbona) in 1200..
85. Scholasticism
• Professors tried to
combine Christian faith
with reason. Plato’s
celestial polis and souls
could be, Aristotle could
not.
86. Philip II Augustus 1179 –
1223
• Teachers from England
studied at the University
of Paris, received PHD’s
and returned to England
founding Oxford and
Cambridge..
87. Thomas Aquinas
• Used Aristotle's
methods of logic to
prove the truths of
Christianity in his book
Summa Theologians.
The human mind could
use reason for physical
truths, but reason alone
could not find spiritual
88. • In 1209, professors from England left
the University of Paris and started their
own universities at Oxford and
Cambridge England.
93. Those that pray
• Perhaps the greatest impact of the Crusades was
• political. They eventually helped to break down
• feudalism. As kings levied taxes and raised armies,
• nobles joining the Crusades sold their lands and freed
• their serfs. As the nobles lost power, the kings were
• able to create stronger central governments. Taxing
• trade with the East also provided kings with new
• wealth. This paved the way for the development of
• true nation-states. By the mid-1400s, four strong
• states—Portugal, Spain, England, and France—would
• emerge in Europe.The Papal Monarchy
96. Evolutionof England’s PoliticalSystem
Henry I:
William’s son.
set up a royal moving court system,
with regular laws.
Exchequer dept. of royal finances.
Henry II:
most people prefered the Kings justice
over their own lords. He established the
principle of common law
throughout the kingdom.
grand jury.
trial by jury.
97. MagnaCarta, 1215
King John I
Runnymeade
“Great Charter”
monarchs were not
above the law.
kings had to
consult a council of
advisors.
kings could not tax
arbitrarily.
98. Magna Carta, 1215
a King John I forced to accept it.
a A list of demands made by the
nobility.
a Created a CONTRACT between the
king and the aristocracy.
a Established principles which limited
the power of the king:
Established basic legal rights.
The king must ask for popular consent
for taxes.
Accused must have jury trial.
99. ModelParliament, 1295
a King Edward I brought his
military leaders and nobility
together as a Parliament to ask
their consent to new taxes.
a Established the principle of
parliamentary “power of the
purse.”
a A radical new idea for any
monarch to ask for anything!
100. The Beginningsof the British Parliament
Great Council:
eventually called Parliament.
by 1400, two chambers evolved:
o House of Lords nobles & clergy.
o House of Commons knights and
burgesses elected by citizens to go
to London.
117. • Feudalism: the government system
produces knights to fight for Lords.
• Mannerism: the economic system
based on farms and serfs supports
the production of knights.
118. Feudalism and Mannerism
• Three classes of people arose,
those that prayed: the Clergy
class
• Those that fought: the Noble
Class Lords, ladies and knights
• Those that worked: the peasant
class.