Essays For Monday January 15, 2015 5 page essay on “giving details about the importance of Charlemagne to the Middle Ages” Double-spaced, Times New Roman 12, with normal margins. Readings Feudal life http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/feudal.html http://www.medieval-life.net/city_life.htm The Treaty of Verdun, Louis the Pious http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/flouisphis.htm The Frankish kingdom http://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/1663 http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?gtrack=pthc&ParagraphID=ebx (Pepin) http://www.themiddleages.net/people/charlemagne.html The Visigoths http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/WestEurope/Visigoths.html Five page essay, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12, with normal margins Why is it that the middle Ages are also called the Dark Ages? Readings The Great Schism http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-great-schism.htm http://www.mrdowling.com/703middleages.html The Religious Crusades http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/ataglance/glance.shtm l http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/domerock.htm http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Saladin The First Crusade 1096-1099 http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-first-crusade.htm The Second Crusade 1147-1149 The Third Crusade 1189-1192 The Fourth Crusade 1202-1204 The Fifth Crusade 1217-1221 The Sixth Crusade 1228-1229 The Seventh Crusade 1248-1254 http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/crusades/ The Eighth Crusade 1270 http://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/eighth-crusade Magna Carta http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/magna_01.shtml Black Death http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/westciv/plague/ The Hundred Years' War http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/hundred_years_war.html Joan of Arc http://www.lordsandladies.org/joan-of-arc.htm .