then up to the Baltic States. This horrifying mass murderous disease took the lives of 75 million people‚ something that shook the lives of everyone during the Middle Ages. This epidemic affected the social‚ economic‚ and religious aspects of the medieval culture. However‚ the religious changes were the biggest switch in the Middle Ages culture that affected the beliefs in the Modern Era. Therefore‚ the social and economic shifts were the least important. The social transformation after the Black
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte: Chaucer’s Pity In his essay “Chaucer and Pite‚” Douglas Gray records the relevant meanings of pity taken from the NED current to Chaucer’s time as: (1) The quality of being pitiful; the disposition to mercy or compassion‚ clemency‚ mercy‚ mildness or tenderness . . . (2) A feeling or emotion of tenderness aroused by the suffering‚ distress‚ or misfortune of another‚ and prompting a desire for its relief; compassion‚ sympathy . . . (3) a ground
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PartII The Middle Ages and Renaissance McGraw-Hill © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rig An Appreciation Time-Line Middle Ages (450-1450) – Rome sacked by Vandals—455 – Beowolf—c. 700 – First Crusade—1066 – Black Death—1347-52 – Joan of Arc executed by English—1431 McGraw-Hill © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rig An Appreciation Time-Line Renaissance (1450-1600) – Guttenberg Bible—1456 – Columbus reaches America—1492 – Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa—c. 1503 – Michelangelo:
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The Black Death The Black Death almost wiped out all of Western Europe. The Black Death was carried by flea infested rat. These rats came from ships coming from Asia. The rats thrived in the filthy streets of Western Europe. The Black Death killed 1/3 of Western Europe’s population. Although the Black Death devastated Western Europe it also had many benefits such as higher wages for peasants‚ job opportunities for women‚ and innovations in the work place. One of the benefits of the Black
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At this time in history‚ Christians persecuted Jews in Europe and blamed them for bad luck and even bad weather.”(Middle Ages - Medieval Resources 2011). This forced the Jews to live in the suburbs of the town‚ in places called ghettos. Also the Jews weren’t allowed to work in government. This isolation gave them a bit of time because the plague hadn’t reached them yet. The people
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aftermath of this pandemic that ravaged Europe during the fourteenth century. The Black Death was one of the worst events that ever occurred throughout the history of Europe. The Black Death‚ also known as the “Great Pestilence” to the people of medieval Europe‚ was a pandemic that was estimated to have killed off thirty to sixty
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Mid Term Essays 1. To understand how polyphony and rhythmic theory developed through the Middle Ages‚ one needs to understand how both music practices were created. Before these styles was monophonic structure. Deriving from Gregorian chant‚ music was primarily based on one melody only singing through chant style. Based mostly on religious uses‚ monophonic structure moved forward to polyphonic structure (adding another line of music to the existing chant/text). This step was one of the most
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Throughout all of Christian history‚ it has been made explicitly clear that the consecration doesn’t depend on line of sight. Whether by curtains hanging from the baldachins of early basilicas‚ the rood screens of medieval parish churches‚ or the iconostases found in eastern churches‚ the sanctuary of the church has always been at least somewhat divided from the nave‚ precisely because the sanctuary is where Heaven touches Earth at the consecration. If a church with
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middle-class representatives to participate in the Parliament (Great Council). By the end of the century‚ it was clear that the English had created the foundation for constitutional monarchy‚ which would consolidate the gap between modern democracy and medieval feudalism. This led to the Renaissance by allowing laborers and lower class individuals to exercise freedoms that had never before been allowed or protected by law. They were now able to demand rights and practice art and literature‚ things that
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The Black Plague swept through Europe from 1346-1353 killing an estimated 25-60% of European population; making this one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. The plague caused the infected victim to have purplish-black tumors all over their body. The death of over at least 70 million people caused social‚ economic‚ and political troubles throughout Europe. Since “history is made by the living‚ not the dead‚ who are no longer historical actors‚” people started to abandon their friends
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