When you get sick‚ what do you do? In the age of medieval Europe‚ 500- 1450‚ disease was raging. Cholera‚ measles‚ leprosy‚ but the worst of all the bubonic plague. Millions of people died because of the bubonic plague due to poor hygienic conditions. There were not many doctors in this time‚ but the ones that were there were frantic trying to find a cure for the plague. The doctors were not well educated and this caused a lot of inaccurate information. Not much came along in this period because
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The rise of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages impacted much of Western Europe and was reestablished to be as powerful as the Old Roman empire. The Holy Roman Emperor was able to unite and influence the people of Europe for many years to come. Before Charlemagne (or Charles the Great) came into power in 768‚ his grandfather Charles Martel became the ruler of the Frankish territories after the Merovingian dynasty was losing control of it. When Martel died‚ his son Pepin the Short‚ took the power of the
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This movement through space evokes a movement through time‚ as the notion of space in the Middle-Ages intertwined the idea of a flow through physical and temporal space.1 This movement is both horizontal and vertical. The evolution of time is expressed horizontally across the screen through the unfolding of the events of the Passion‚ and the interactions between the donor figures in the apse and the Crucifixon group described by Jacqueline Jung.2 As moving around the nave is necessary to witness
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The Middle Ages‚ despite also being referred to as the Dark Ages‚ was a time of high creativity. The misconception that it was "dark" is most likely due to the two periods directly before‚ and after it‚ which had more advancement and focus on learning and education. This period of creativity would not last. A series of crises would strike the people of medieval Europe in a manner extremely similar to those foretold in the Bible‚ brought by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was so similar in
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Although it may seem like serfs didn’t do much in the Middle Ages‚ they were actually the ones who kept both knights and nobles alive. The serfs were just like peasants‚ except for the fact that they served under a lord. The serfs would farm their lord’s land - one strip of the field’s crops were for themselves and their family‚ while the rest of the field and their crops belonged to the lord. In exchange‚ the lord would protect his serfs from robbery and any other kinds of harm. The serfs
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industrial production. For Manors needed the products and services of “mason‚ expert armorers and metalworkers…” (24‚ Heilbroner)‚ in order to sustain itself. This institution is known as a guild‚ and can be considered the “business units” of the Middle Ages. However the guild’s function was considered much more than just a foundation that focused on the organization and production of economic growth. It was shown that they were also focused on non-economical affairs such as the civil duties‚ and the
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In the later fourth century and early fifth century‚ the Western Roman Empire fell into rapid decline. Signs of decline included incursions by many of the Northern Kingdoms‚ also known as “barbarians‚” including Vandals‚ Goths‚ Saxons‚ Angles‚ and Gauls. The actual fall of Rome is recorded in history by the Visigoths in 410 A.D. While the fall of the empire included looting and the loss of writings and items of antiquity‚ most notably the invaders were looking to settle in the conquered lands and
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Pharisees (lat. pharisæ|us‚ -i; from heb. פרושים perushim/פרוש parush‚ meaning "set apart"[1]) were at various times a political party‚ a social movement‚ and a school of thought among Jews during the Second Temple period under the Hasmonean dynasty (140–37 BCE) in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt. Sadducees (Hebrew: צדוקים Tzedukim) were a group or a sect of Jews opposed to the Pharisees (Hebrew: פרושים — from which today’s Rabbinical Jews are descended) that were active in the Land of Israel
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appropriate to consider the Middle Ages the "Dark Ages"‚ for numerous reasons. One of which would be because of the black plague that swept through Europe killing thousands of people and causing great suffering for many people‚ leaving families devistated. Another would be because of the many battles and wars that broke out leaving thousands more dead. The Catholic Church went through many problems in the Medieval times. One reason that the Middle Ages could be considered the "Dark Ages" is because of the
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In Medieval Europe‚ attitudes toward homosexuality varied by era and region. Generally‚ by at least the twelfth century‚ homosexuality was considered sodomy and was punishable by death. Before the Medieval period early Romans tolerated alternative sexual practices‚ such as masturbation in males and females and homosexuality. Homosexuality was generally more accepted for males than for females; male elites were able to recruit slaves or hire household boys for their sexual pleasures‚ while males saw
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