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Conflicts of interest and civil wars, the political and administrative division and military spending and economic problems. -
The Gregorian chant is sacred music which is sung a capella, that is, all the singers in a choir of monks sing the same melody without accompaniment. Gregorian chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, used to accompany the text of the mass and the canonical hours, or divine office.
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The Vikings took the monks by surprise and attacked from the sea. The assailants dug up the altar and stole the church's treasures, a later source tells us. They killed some of the monks and stripped others naked. Many drowned in the sea. Some, including children, were chained to their ships, perhaps for ransom, perhaps to be sold into slavery. -
At the Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson and establishes his rule over England. -
Roberto Grosseteste was a Franciscan scholastic philosopher, erudite in almost all the indications of the knowledge of his time. He served as Bishop of Lincoln during the 13th century.
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He was a troubadour, since he composed his works in the language of oil, a French poet and musician who ended the long-established tradition of writing poetry and liturgical music, being one of the founders of secular theater in France.
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It was a disease that killed more than half of the population of Europe
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The Modern period started with the fall of the Byzantine empire, and ended
with the French Revolution.
The first centuries brought many changes. After the
discovery of America, trading routes and colonies were established all over the world.
Monarchies strengthened their power and laid the foundations of the modern state.
Science made huge advances and economic growth meant big social transformations. -
The birth of Venus is part of the sensitivity of the Renaissance, a time when the representation of the myths of Classical Antiquity was renewed, in which the Renaissance found hidden truths about human nature.
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Colón conquer América -
He was the first European to set foot in South America. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer from Genoa. His four Renaissance voyages across the Atlantic changed the course of world history. -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
Baroque is understood as the architectural style carried out in the 17th and part of the 18th centuries , characterized by the profusion of ornaments in contrast to the sober style of the classical Renaissance.