Early Middle Ages

Music can be traced all the way back to 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with sounds and discovered tones can be formed from plucking strings. During the Middle Ages is when music began to be considered a gift from God. A common way to praise and worship our God was through music; this is how sacred music came about. Soon later, sacred music eventually was overcome by secular music, which is more along the lines of crusades, dancing, and love songs and less of the more religious and…

Western civilization experienced many developments to education and intellectualism in-between the time of the fall of Rome and the renaissance. At first, education was based mainly on religion and taught in religious buildings during the middle ages, but as time rolled on colleges and universities arose. Intellectualism was comprised mainly of three factions humanism, secularism, and individualism, and were taught mostly by influential people and their writings. The development of institutions…

cure our illnesses. Medieval medicine has always been cast aside, but today historians are beginning to explore the early medieval understanding of health and medicine. In eighth and ninth century Anglo-Saxon England’s use of medicine are summarized in Life of St. Cuthbert by Bede, Bald’s Leechbook, and Herbarium by Pseudo-Apuleius. Through these texts we are able to see how early medieval people created and used concoctions that they believed cured the sick. Some of these methods of healing…

Castles Needed a good defence system and design because they were a kingdom main for defence against invasion. (eventually, however weapons overpowered their once mighty walls.) The Middle Ages, a period of History that ran from the year 590 to 1500 ce, it could of be known for famous landmarks, like castles. It was someone's home but if someone wanted to invade the castle they would of must go through heavy defence. There were moats, High walls, Flanking towers and gateway defences that would…

production; its effects spread unevenly across England, parts of France, and western Germany. A number of technological breakthroughs made it possible for peasants and lords to obtain a greater yield from the land. This, in turn, made it possible for early medieval towns and cities to grow prosperous and support even larger populations. Manorialism, or serfdom, became a principal form of land organization during this period, and although the serfs' life was always harsh, they at least knew that…

during the middle Ages between 500-1400 AD. The Catholic Church’s chants dominated at this time with their sacred music known as the Gregorian chant. This sacred music gradually developed into polyphonic music known as organum. However, secular music also flourished from Trouveres and Troubadours, until it was crowned with secular compositions of the first true genius of western music regarded as Guillaume de Machaut (Organ, 2001). However, the Gregorian chant was developed from early Christian…

nation-states? Monarchs in England and France struggled for power with the nobles and Church. The Black Death and Crusades as well as political and religious changes during the Middle Ages led to the expansion of royal authority and laid the foundations for united nation-states. The dominant force of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Feudal lords had control over the land and the serfs who were tied to the land and forced to work it. Although the feudal lords pledged allegiance to the King,…

were really expensive. There were 70 French types of soups that they ate. The renaissance began in Italy at the end of the fourteenth centuries it became an era of many culture. Weddings took the custom from medieval italy. It was also the golden age of pomp celebration as the wealthy attempted to outdo each other in public display. These were mainly famous for their art and culture. Many famous poets had belonged to this era like Ludovico Ariosto, Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, Matteo Maria…

The Artistic Renaissance Shift: Looking Around instead of Looking Up Although relatively short in duration, the Renaissance represented a drastic change in culture and values from the Middle Ages. While the Middle Ages was a period of stagnation, the Renaissance was a revival in art, literature, and self expression. A shift in philosophical thought brought about the resurgence as people began to study the world around them instead of constantly looking upwards for answers to life’s most…

Towards the end of the Middle Ages in around 1100, a period of castle-building and sieges emerged in Medieval Europe. This formed a new type of warfare called Siege Warfare. This way of fighting featured gigantic, heavily-defended castles and armies of men with multiple weapons in an attempt to siege a castle. A castle is a large, medieval fortress that housed lords, a King and Queen, Knights and other groups of people. Thousands of castles were built in places throughout Europe, such as Italy,…