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Session 15 Polities of the Early Middle Ages A review The High Middle Ages Its features

Session 15 Polities of the Early Middle Ages A review The High Middle Ages Its features. T h e A m e r i c a n U n i v e r s i t y o f R o m e HST 201 - Survey of Western Civilization I. R O M E. Biz e. 500. HRE X. 800. I. 1000.

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Session 15 Polities of the Early Middle Ages A review The High Middle Ages Its features

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  1. Session 15 Polities of the Early Middle Ages A review The High Middle Ages Its features T h e A m e r i c a n U n i v e r s i t y o f R o m eHST 201 - Survey of Western Civilization I

  2. R O M E Biz e 500 HRE X 800 I 1000 1400 OE 1918

  3. The Middle Ages: the events 476/565 800 1300 1453/1492 Early MA > High MA > Late MA 1000 > Constantine’s division of Empire > Fall of Rome > Justinian > Rise of Islam “The Renaissance of the 12thCentury” Renaissance < Fall of < Constantinople End of 100 < years war Americas < “Reconquista” < of Spain Battle of < Lepanto Holy Roman Empire Monasteries Plagues Universities >The building of Western Law Schism >Intercontinental commerce Romanic architecture >Gothic architecture age of cathedrals >Rennaissance of Greco-Roman art?

  4. R O M E Biz e 500 HRE X 800 I 1000 1400 OE 1918

  5. The Byzantine empire > Its start? Technically, the division of the R empire… Diocletian? Constantine? > The Roman revival of Justinian, with a twist of Latin in B 527-565 > Germanic Lombards conquer the Italy 568 > Ascension of emperor Heraclius, fully Greek rulers Defeats the Persians, captures Jerusalem 610-641 > Arabs occupy Byzantine territory and attack C 650-717 > Anatolia under B rule 717-750 > Iconoclastic movement (in the same vein as Islam? Against monasteries…political as well, against pretensions of Charlemagne and Leo III) 700-850 > Palace intrigues and complots & strong, regulated administration based on control over trade, new industries & strategic position

  6. > Stalemate between Arabs and Byzantium 750-950 > Russia converts to orthodoxy 911-989 > Successful campaigns against Abbasid rulers & B reconquers most of Syria 950-1000 > Annexation of Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia 1015-1025 > Schism of the Christian Church (and definite distinction E vs W… importance of B for the W overshadowed) 1054 > Seljuk Turks (Ottoman) overrun eastern Byzantine provinces… start of the defensive state & decline 1071 > Reign of Alexius Comnenus (against Normans, treaty with Turks, Crusade, takes Anatolia but independent crusader states 1081-1118 > First Crusade, Jerusalem (>1187) 1095-1099 > Fourth Crusade, capture of C by Venice: the Latin empire 1204-1261 > Fall of Constantinople 1453 > Trebizond, last capital of the minuscule Byzantine empire

  7. Trebizond Constantinople

  8. > Sources of stability: administration of the territories, not succession traditions. Strong trade, at least until 11th c. Important agricultural base, and in the post-roman period presence of a strong base of independent farmers, but then they will be part of large estates (nobles & monasteries). • >Byzantine religion: doctrinal disputes & the sense of “mission” of Byzantines monks. The loss of territories will reinforce this need for a strong religious base. The contact with Islam for example…Iconoclastic controversy • > Byzantine culture: no intellectual freedom in universities (in contrast with Europe) • > Byzantium and the Western Christian world Trebizond Constantinople

  9. R O M E Biz e 500 HRE X 800 I 1000 G 1400 OE 1918

  10. Spread of Islam > Expulsion of Muhammad from Mecca (Hijrah) 622 > Return of Muhammad to Mecca 630 > Death of Muhammad 632 > Abu-Bakr becomes caliph 632 > Umar becomes caliph 634 > Arabs occupy Antioch, Damascus and Jerusalem 636 > Arabs reach Persian capital 637 > Arabs invade Egypt and then North Africa 646-711 > Arabs conquer Persian empire 651 > Umayyad dynasty 661-750 > Sunni-Shiite schism 661 > Arabs invade Spain 711 > Arabs defeated at Poitiers by Charles Martel 732 > then stopped near Lyons 739 > Abbasid dynasty 750 > Arabs stopped at Ostia 800

  11. Cordoba, Islam, and the cultural hub of Europe

  12. R O M E Biz e 500 HRE X 800 I 1000 G 1400 OE 1918

  13. The Carolingian empire > The Rise of the Carolingian Empire 717-814 > Charles Martel becomes mayor of the palace 717 > The Carolingians (Charles, Pepin and Carloman) share power with the Merovingian 717-751 > Charlemagne succeeds Pepin 768 > Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman emperor 800 > Louis the Pious becomes emperor 813 > Charlemagne dies 814 > Division of the empire How do we interpret the phenomenon of the birth of the HRE? Its formation and rapid division?

  14. 7th-9th c. The Indian Ocean in Eurasian and African World-Systems before the Sixteenth Century, Philippe Beaujard, Journal of World History, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2005

  15. 1st-3rd c. The Indian Ocean in Eurasian and African World-Systems before the Sixteenth Century, Philippe Beaujard, Journal of World History, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2005

  16. MA 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100

  17. In Europe: political systems of the Middle Ages > Society moved from a world of tribes and chiefdoms - in which rights of property were mainly defined through membership of a kin-group - to a society in which lordship over all land and men was increasingly assumed by state rulers. > A situation typical in an “intermediate” period and normal among the barbarian tribes that were settling the old lands of the Roman empire. > The so-called feudal state of the Middle Ages was an institution that represented a limited territorialization of power, wherein a king's ability to govern and rule his kingdom depended to a large extent on the cooperation of his vassals (p. 65, Elias 1982, 16-17).

  18. > This is NOT the situation that Charlemagne (CtG) will create, but the situation that will develop from one more event of a partition of an empire and the evolution of the MA. > There is no more striking a demonstration of this process than the dramatic collapse of the Frankish kingdom in the early Middle Ages, when the extended kingdom of Charlemagne disintegrated into a 'mosaic of autonomous duchies and principalities‘. (p.66)

  19. Feudalism> Political system? Centralized? Decentralized?> Confrontation Monarchy vs. Nobility?(their different aims and powers)> Power relations? Allegiance& contract> Property system? Special land-tenure system?> European system

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