What types of jobs would the serfs have. Were they slaves to the the owner of the land they were on or were they just sort of like villagers? What was the average size of an army that was used to protect a manor? How good were the armor and weapons used by the Germanic people?
Well I took some pretty good notes. Theres a little bit that wasnt in the reading that I accidentally read though.
• Constantine kept Rome under his rule while building Constantinople • Bands of warriors began to attack in 395 ○ Everything in Rome fell to Germanic people • Sacking of Rome- 410 by Visigoths • Last Roman emperor in 476 • Legal framework started to fall apart • Justinian's law lasted for a long time • Corupus Julius Civilus ○ Body of civil law ○ Four sections: intro and survey, digest for lawyers, quotations, collection of decrees • Irnerius • Univerity of Bologna • Hagia Sofia ○ Church built by Justinian • Theodora ○ Justinian's wife • Cyril and Methodius ○ Went on a mission to the slavs of Moravia (modern Czech) ○ Preached local language and writing called Cyrillic ○ Marked the beginning of the competition of Greek and Latin Christianity • Franks had Gaul • Visigoths had spain • Ostrogoths • Saxons, Angles, Jutes were raiding all across the north sea and took most of Britian • Bishop of Rome ○ Local Roman aristocrats competed for the position • At this point, most monks and priests spoke Latin • N/E of Rhine River, most people spoke Germanic • Arabs and Berbers under the Umyyad caliph (Syria) over threw the Visigoths in Spain in 711 • Muslims went on to France ○ Charles Martel stopped them (Charlemagne's grandfather) ○ 732 • Carolingian family ○ Came to power and had power mostly because of their military skills ○ Charlemagne's father- Pepin who came to power (751-768) ○ Under Charlemagne Carolingians had Gaul, Germany and Italy ○ Louis the Pious (C's son) died and led to the Treaty of Verdun (843), which split the empire …French speaking in west, German speaking east, nevertheless • Vikings ○ Sea raiders of Scandanavia came to Europe in 793 ○ Attacked churches ○ Good ship builders • Raiders in Denmark and Norway • Varangians- raiders • William the Conqueror ○ Duke of Normandy ○ 1066 invaded England • People who came to Rome later destroyed a lot of their roads and didn’t at all preserve their records • No trade- no wheat from Egypt • Almost all of Rome's trade cut off • Centralization channeled wealth to the capital • Diet in the northern countries ○ Beer ○ Butter ○ Bread ○ Pork ○ Game • Manors ○ Farming estates ○ Primary agricultural producers ○ Fields, gardens, grazing land, mills, church, a mini village pretty much • Serfs were agricultural workers who served the manor ○ Having slaves was controversial but these pretty much did the same thing • Nobles had most of the power • Mounted warriors ○ Fueled the Carolingian army • Feudalism • Germans- well equipped • Knights emerged as warriors ○ Mounted warriors ○ Long shirt • Fief ○ A grant in land in return for military service • Kings made them vassals (honor) ○ These vassals could eventually grant land to others • Lords of manors governed the manors • Marrying into power ○ If you marry a woman who is the daughter of a lord, you get power • Non noble women worked
Bayeux tapestry
A Question: Why werent the Germanic people looked at as the ruling power of the time? Why the Carolingian family?
I looked at 2 different things more in depth from the reading. Charles Martel is most famous for his victory at the Battle of Tours (in France) This battle was important beacuse it stopped Islamic expansion in Europe. His nickname was "The Hammer". And he was the founder of the Carolingian Empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carolingian_Empire_map_1895.jpg The link above goes to a map of the Carolingian Empire. I was also interested in learning more about the Bayeux Tapestry. It is a French long embroidered cloth that explains the event that took place in 1066; the Norman invasion of England (when France conquers England). Parts of the tapestry are said to be missing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bayeux_Tapestry_WillelmDux.jpg The link above shows a picture of the tapestry.
I was going through the reading and I was wondering where I thought the Vikings came from and also what the Middle Ages in Europe were like in general. I found this link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/) and then this site in general (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/) all of which I found interesting. This site was produced by the BBC and is their site referring to history, not just British History, but history in general. I also thought that it had some pretty good interactive content with videos, timelines and simulations, all designed to help enrich one's learning of history. I also liked the games :), which I thought provided a fun way to explain some events in history which would normally be boring.
While reading the text, i wanted to know a bit more about vikings/serfs/Charlemagne..
I immediately went to each wiki and found some cool information.. As ellyse said in teh post before mine, were the vikings a religious people? How were serfs treated in comparison to the Athenian/Spartan Civilization?
I searched the "Franks and Gaul" and came up with this picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frankish_Empire_481_to_814-en.svg It's a picture of the Franks conquests, and territories over a period of time. Also it mentions the "Angles" and I had never heard of such people so I searched them on wiki and this was the first paragraph-->
The Angles is a modern English word for a Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the cultural ancestral region of Angeln, a modern district located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Ancient Angeln preceded all modern national distinctions and was, therefore, probably not coterminous with the modern culture of the same region.
In the reading it mentioned that Christian monks and the educated still spoke Latin, however average people began to separate Latin into the romance languages. I was wondering a little bit about how the split occurred and what were some things that were lost (and gained)...
I learned that there are two different types of Latin that were spoken in Rome: Classical Latin (used by higher classes and in literature) and Vulgar Latin (used by the common people; here vulgar means "for the people"). Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian) came from Vulgar Latin, which was used a lot towards the fall of the Roman Empire, which makes sense.
Vulgar Latin probably split into those other languages (in the fifth to tenth centuries) because all of Europe was not one big empire anymore... plus the fact that not everyone was literate, so people had to rely on person-to-person communication. Unfortunately, not a whole lot is known about this split because the time period in general was poorly documented.
However, by the 16th century, a lot of the languages had been standardized by more stable and larger kingdoms... so, the Romance languages didn't really evolve much more (not at such a fast rate, anyway).
I found this information on the Wikipedia Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
So I was looking at the Vikings and the Saxons and they are more similar then i thought they were. I first realized this when i was looking at their coins(see above links) and noticed that they have some of the same symbols on them. So i looked at their religions and both of them started out being pagans and as Christianity spread some of the beliefs were excepted into their religion and some of the symbols(cross) as you can see the cross in the coins though it is not a traditional one(also you and see some of their other symbols) So to me these coins represent the merging of the religions in both cultures. I was wondering if there were so many serfs why did they just not rebel and attack the people controlling them?
"Local noble families competed for control of this position, which over several centuries acquired the title POPE along with the supreme power in the Latin Speaking Church." does this mean that any lord could become a Pope during this time. They didn't have to be elected?
What does "Ihus" mean? It was mentioned many times during this reading. (I'm going to find the answer to this one for tomorrow)
I found this fun, interactive website which gives a basic overview of the middle ages and some details that were not covered in the book. I found the arts section very interesting. I also was wondering more about the serfs and the kind of jobs that they have, and a section in this web site cleared that question up for me.
In the end of the reading it describes briefly women’s roles and how the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting the Battle of Hastings, was made entirely by women. I wanted to find out a little more about it and what it looked like so I first found this video on YouTube. It’s an animated video in a way, but it’s made so that it looks like the actual tapestry is moving—pretty neat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o
Then I found one more site from the BBC about the Bayeux Tapestry. At this site, there are several sections you can visit to learn more about different aspects of the Tapestry that are pretty interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/bayeux_tapestry_gallery_03.shtml
i found a link of the Lombards. the Lombards were Germanic and they were originally from Northern Europe. the settled in the valley of the Danube river until kicked out by the franks in 744. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/lombards
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What types of jobs would the serfs have. Were they slaves to the the owner of the land they were on or were they just sort of like villagers?
What was the average size of an army that was used to protect a manor?
How good were the armor and weapons used by the Germanic people?
Well I took some pretty good notes. Theres a little bit that wasnt in the reading that I accidentally read though.
• Constantine kept Rome under his rule while building Constantinople
• Bands of warriors began to attack in 395
○ Everything in Rome fell to Germanic people
• Sacking of Rome- 410 by Visigoths
• Last Roman emperor in 476
• Legal framework started to fall apart
• Justinian's law lasted for a long time
• Corupus Julius Civilus
○ Body of civil law
○ Four sections: intro and survey, digest for lawyers, quotations, collection of decrees
• Irnerius
• Univerity of Bologna
• Hagia Sofia
○ Church built by Justinian
• Theodora
○ Justinian's wife
• Cyril and Methodius
○ Went on a mission to the slavs of Moravia (modern Czech)
○ Preached local language and writing called Cyrillic
○ Marked the beginning of the competition of Greek and Latin Christianity
• Franks had Gaul
• Visigoths had spain
• Ostrogoths
• Saxons, Angles, Jutes were raiding all across the north sea and took most of Britian
• Bishop of Rome
○ Local Roman aristocrats competed for the position
• At this point, most monks and priests spoke Latin
• N/E of Rhine River, most people spoke Germanic
• Arabs and Berbers under the Umyyad caliph (Syria) over threw the Visigoths in Spain in 711
• Muslims went on to France
○ Charles Martel stopped them (Charlemagne's grandfather)
○ 732
• Carolingian family
○ Came to power and had power mostly because of their military skills
○ Charlemagne's father- Pepin who came to power (751-768)
○ Under Charlemagne Carolingians had Gaul, Germany and Italy
○ Louis the Pious (C's son) died and led to the Treaty of Verdun (843), which split the empire
…French speaking in west, German speaking east, nevertheless
• Vikings
○ Sea raiders of Scandanavia came to Europe in 793
○ Attacked churches
○ Good ship builders
• Raiders in Denmark and Norway
• Varangians- raiders
• William the Conqueror
○ Duke of Normandy
○ 1066 invaded England
• People who came to Rome later destroyed a lot of their roads and didn’t at all preserve their records
• No trade- no wheat from Egypt
• Almost all of Rome's trade cut off
• Centralization channeled wealth to the capital
• Diet in the northern countries
○ Beer
○ Butter
○ Bread
○ Pork
○ Game
• Manors
○ Farming estates
○ Primary agricultural producers
○ Fields, gardens, grazing land, mills, church, a mini village pretty much
• Serfs were agricultural workers who served the manor
○ Having slaves was controversial but these pretty much did the same thing
• Nobles had most of the power
• Mounted warriors
○ Fueled the Carolingian army
• Feudalism
• Germans- well equipped
• Knights emerged as warriors
○ Mounted warriors
○ Long shirt
• Fief
○ A grant in land in return for military service
• Kings made them vassals (honor)
○ These vassals could eventually grant land to others
• Lords of manors governed the manors
• Marrying into power
○ If you marry a woman who is the daughter of a lord, you get power
• Non noble women worked
Bayeux tapestry
A Question: Why werent the Germanic people looked at as the ruling power of the time? Why the Carolingian family?
http://vikingships.tripod.com/images/rigging1a.jpg
I looked up viking ships and came up with an image of them with the rigging and everything... so here it is.
I looked at 2 different things more in depth from the reading.
Charles Martel is most famous for his victory at the Battle of Tours (in France) This battle was important beacuse it stopped Islamic expansion in Europe. His nickname was "The Hammer". And he was the founder of the Carolingian Empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carolingian_Empire_map_1895.jpg
The link above goes to a map of the Carolingian Empire.
I was also interested in learning more about the Bayeux Tapestry. It is a French long embroidered cloth that explains the event that took place in 1066; the Norman invasion of England (when France conquers England). Parts of the tapestry are said to be missing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bayeux_Tapestry_WillelmDux.jpg
The link above shows a picture of the tapestry.
I was going through the reading and I was wondering where I thought the Vikings came from and also what the Middle Ages in Europe were like in general. I found this link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/) and then this site in general (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/) all of which I found interesting. This site was produced by the BBC and is their site referring to history, not just British History, but history in general. I also thought that it had some pretty good interactive content with videos, timelines and simulations, all designed to help enrich one's learning of history. I also liked the games :), which I thought provided a fun way to explain some events in history which would normally be boring.
What religion were the Vikings? Were they religious people?
What were Rome's "physical insecurities"?
What did Charles Martel do to stop the spread of Islam in Europe?
While reading the text, i wanted to know a bit more about vikings/serfs/Charlemagne..
I immediately went to each wiki and found some cool information.. As ellyse said in teh post before mine, were the vikings a religious people? How were serfs treated in comparison to the Athenian/Spartan Civilization?
I searched the "Franks and Gaul" and came up with this picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frankish_Empire_481_to_814-en.svg
It's a picture of the Franks conquests, and territories over a period of time.
Also it mentions the "Angles" and I had never heard of such people so I searched them on wiki and this was the first paragraph-->
The Angles is a modern English word for a Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the cultural ancestral region of Angeln, a modern district located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Ancient Angeln preceded all modern national distinctions and was, therefore, probably not coterminous with the modern culture of the same region.
1) How did they make the vikings ships? What were they made of?
2) How important were women in the middle ages- what did they do?
this is a good link for vikings ships:
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/v_drakkar.htm
women in the middle ages:
http://www.camelotintl.com/village/women.html
In the reading it mentioned that Christian monks and the educated still spoke Latin, however average people began to separate Latin into the romance languages. I was wondering a little bit about how the split occurred and what were some things that were lost (and gained)...
I learned that there are two different types of Latin that were spoken in Rome: Classical Latin (used by higher classes and in literature) and Vulgar Latin (used by the common people; here vulgar means "for the people"). Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian) came from Vulgar Latin, which was used a lot towards the fall of the Roman Empire, which makes sense.
Vulgar Latin probably split into those other languages (in the fifth to tenth centuries) because all of Europe was not one big empire anymore... plus the fact that not everyone was literate, so people had to rely on person-to-person communication. Unfortunately, not a whole lot is known about this split because the time period in general was poorly documented.
However, by the 16th century, a lot of the languages had been standardized by more stable and larger kingdoms... so, the Romance languages didn't really evolve much more (not at such a fast rate, anyway).
I found this information on the Wikipedia Articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/money_05.shtml
http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/education/images/saxons_coins4.jpg
So I was looking at the Vikings and the Saxons and they are more similar then i thought they were. I first realized this when i was looking at their coins(see above links) and noticed that they have some of the same symbols on them. So i looked at their religions and both of them started out being pagans and as Christianity spread some of the beliefs were excepted into their religion and some of the symbols(cross) as you can see the cross in the coins though it is not a traditional one(also you and see some of their other symbols) So to me these coins represent the merging of the religions in both cultures. I was wondering if there were so many serfs why did they just not rebel and attack the people controlling them?
"Local noble families competed for control of this position, which over several centuries acquired the title POPE along with the supreme power in the Latin Speaking Church." does this mean that any lord could become a Pope during this time. They didn't have to be elected?
What does "Ihus" mean? It was mentioned many times during this reading. (I'm going to find the answer to this one for tomorrow)
How did the make the viking ships? Were they reliable?
The vikings, were they religous and if so what were they? Did they have weekly meetings or religous holidays?
http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/artsentr.html
I found this fun, interactive website which gives a basic overview of the middle ages and some details that were not covered in the book. I found the arts section very interesting. I also was wondering more about the serfs and the kind of jobs that they have, and a section in this web site cleared that question up for me.
Did the poped have any military power backing their claims to control? Were any popes deposed?
In the end of the reading it describes briefly women’s roles and how the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting the Battle of Hastings, was made entirely by women. I wanted to find out a little more about it and what it looked like so I first found this video on YouTube. It’s an animated video in a way, but it’s made so that it looks like the actual tapestry is moving—pretty neat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o
Then I found one more site from the BBC about the Bayeux Tapestry. At this site, there are several sections you can visit to learn more about different aspects of the Tapestry that are pretty interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/bayeux_tapestry_gallery_03.shtml
i found a link of the Lombards. the Lombards were Germanic and they were originally from Northern Europe. the settled in the valley of the Danube river until kicked out by the franks in 744. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/lombards
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