Classical to Medieval

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Classical to Medieval

• The debt to France and the Latin World

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• The Dark Ages of Europe 400-1000 CE

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Dates to Know

• 622 Islamic Hejira or flight. First year of
  Islamic calendar. 10 years later, Islam spread
  through Middle East, Africa, and up through
  Spain. Stopped by Charles The Hammer Martel, a
  Frank, at the Battle of Tours, 732 CE.

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• Pepin II Defeats the Frankish Kings at Battle of
  Tartry, 687 CE. This launches the successful
  Carolingian dynasty, during which Pepin the Short
  marries Big Footed Bertha and produce
• Charlemagne, devout Christian,
• organizer, leader, 747-814

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• Christmas day, 800 CE Charlemagne crowned Holy
  Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III, IN ROME!!!!!
• Shift in power out of the Mediterannean basin to
  Northern Europe, and Christianity has a state to
  defend it.

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• Charlemagne
• Gathered intellectuals
• Defended against Northmen
• Spread the faith through baptism
• Built Monasteries, scriptoriums
• Had monks transcribe ancient classics
• Carolingian scriptour italics. Learning!!!

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• By the year 1000, the Three Estates of Man
• Those who fight
• Those who work
• Those who pray
• First Gothic Cathedral at St Denis

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• 11th CE Courtly Love tradition develops out of
  southern France (Lang-doc) troubadours and
  trobaritz.
• Manners at court
• Love is disease
• Ladies can have many lovers
• Men must prove their love
• The Romantic Quest born

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• 1195 CE Pope Urban II calls for first crusade
  against the Saracen.
• All Europe RespondedLords mortgaged castles,
  went broke,
• Birth of towns, middle class
• 4th Estate Those who Trade

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• 1066 William the Conqueror, a Norman, crosses
  over to Angle-Land, and defeats the Anglo Saxons
  at Battle of Hastings.
• Domesday Book
• Mono-syllabic Language Grows Complex
• Mankinoles/Frenchified Latin mixes with Old
  English Middle English born

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• 13th-14th Century
• Books (though pricey, in utero vellum)
• Cathedral Schools turn to Universities
• Linen recycled for cheaper books
• Prosperity, religious pilgrimages
• Great Cathedrals built
• Dante, divine commedia, 1300 CE

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• Boccacios Decameron begins the frame
  narrative to be used by Chaucer, son of a London
  vitner, mid 14th.

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• England 14th
• Gowers Confessio Amantis
• Langlands Piers Ploughman
• Anon Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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• Bubonic Plaque first hits Europe, then England,
  1348. Perhaps 50 die a horrible death, described
  by Boccaccio. The Black Death. The Red Death
• Made Human Labor valuable. Birth of Middle Class,
  independence.