The Middle Ages: From Beowulf to Canterbury

1. The Middle Ages: From Beowulf to Canterbury

3. The High Middle Ages: 1066–1485 1066 Norman Conquest 1348–1349 Black Death 1215 Magna Carta 1337–1453 Hundred Years’ War 1100 1200 1500 1000 1300 1400 1000s–1300s Age of Feudalism 1300s–1400s Decline of Feudalism

4. The Norman Conquest William the Conqueror 1066 Domesday Book

5. The Age of Feudalism • knight • page • squire

6. The Age of Feudalism • chivalry • courtly love • The Romance • troubadour • tournament

7. The Crusades (1095—1270)

8. The Decline of Feudalism Monetary System Before the Crusades After the Crusades • gold coins are used • few coins exist • peasants can earn gold in exchange for labor or goods • feudal lords make coins for use on their own property only • peasants can save money • serfs use barter system

9. The Decline of Feudalism • Growth of Cities and Towns • Centralized Church (Papacy) • Centralized government • (monarchies)

10. No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice. Magna Carta—“Great Charter” 1215

11. London Canterbury

12. Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims (1810) by William Blake. Engraving.

13. Thomas à Becket 1170

14. Canterbury Cathedral