Review Questions 1. What are the Hurrian songs? Why are they important? A. The Hurrian songs were a set of fragmentary relics. They are important because they are a nearly complete example of notated music from around 1400 BCE. 2. What is the Natya Shastra? Why is it important? A. The Natya Shastra is a written discourse on the performing arts. It is important because this document might represent the foundation of music and other fine arts. 3. Who were troubadours? What was their music like
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Gallican interpretation of Roman chant‚ but it is difficult to distinguish the Gallican work from its Roman basis. It has been said that the basic theory of the trope (an outburst in a preexistent hymn) is Gallican and that the surviving body of medieval tropes and sequences had a French influence. The French were not just popular for their Church influences; they were also popular for the varieties that they introduced later on. Amongst the later Middle Ages‚ France led in the development
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THE BLACK DEATH Matthew Brown P.1 April 17‚ y Around 1339 in northwestern Europe‚ the population was beginning to outgrow the food supply and a severe economic crisis began to take place. The winters were extremely cold and the summers were dry. Due to this extreme weather‚ very low crops yielded and those that grew were dying. Inflation became a common occurrence and as famine broke out‚ people began to worry. The time period of approximately 1339 to 1346 is now known as the famine before the
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Death is also known as the “Black Plague” or “Bubonic Plague”‚ as the main symptoms of the plague were the blackening of the buboes‚ or‚ bubbles on the skin. However‚ despite all the dark thoughts‚ there was a revolution within the plague that gave Medieval Europe hope for a better future. This was due to the fact that the Black Death affected the society of the time in numerous ways. It changed things religiously‚ economically‚ socially‚ and scientifically. The feudal system suffered‚ the middle class
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The focus of medieval women’s spirituality is again the center of this week’s discussion. It differs from last week because we are now examining secondary sources that were written about the women’s spiritual experiences. They did not write the works like their counterparts of last week. This gives us a slightly different perspective that we must take into account when looking at the sources. They are no longer primary sources‚ so the author will not try to portray themselves in a good light. However
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city streets‚ the disease thrived in the filthy conditions of Medieval Europe. While studying the contagions of the disease‚ modern scientists have discovered that the disease was spread by a bacterium called Yersina pestis. They have also found that the bacteria is transmitted through the air‚ as well as from fleas and rats. The disease was especially prevalent because these vermin could be located practically everywhere in medieval Europe. They were most notably found aboard ships‚ which was how
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Sample Rhodes Scholarship Personal Statement—Student #1 Soaked in sweat‚ I sat deep in thought on the small mound of sand and broken rocks in northern Kenya‚ where 1.7 million years ago a desperately ill Homo erectus woman had died. Her death had entranced me for years. KNM-ER 1808 had died of Hypervitaminosis A‚ wherein an overdose of Vitamin A causes extensive hemorrhaging throughout the skeleton and excruciating pain. Yet a thick rind of diseased bone all over her skeleton—ossified blood
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Michael Scott Late Roman & Medieval Humanities 4/19/2012 Essay 4‚ Topic 6 India & China India and China are amazing places. Both are filled with great religious beliefs‚ fantastic architecture‚ and great literature/music. India’s country is filled with Hinduism‚ while China is influenced with Buddhism. One great Indian architecture structure is the Kandrariya Mahadeo temple‚ and one great Chinese architecture structure is the Nanchan Monastery. The way that chinese architecture
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the genre of romance‚ which is the main literary category the poem belongs to. Chaucer`s extraordinary ability to combine‚ fuse and match different literary genres makes the Book of Troilus and Criseyde one of the masterpieces of Medieval English literature. The author‚ once come into contact with the French and Italian literary tradition‚ gives birth to a poem that is “distinctively and essentially sui generis” (Brown 186).
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which I will examine‚ looking not only at the chivalric and religious influences of this medieval period‚ but also at how she would have been viewed in the context of this society and by Chaucer himself. During the period in which Chaucer wrote‚ there was a dual concept of chivalry‚ one facet being based in reality and the other existing mainly in the imagination only. On the one hand‚ there was the medieval notion we are most familiar with today in which the knight was the consummate righteous
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