My essences of chapter 7-14 in terms of family life and cultural with touch of religion and education
By pet6213
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312
Christianity supposedly began
This was when Constantine's support for Christanity begain and caused the religon to spread. With the emperor beign a supporter of this religion it made it more popular and promident. -
500
Clovis became a Catholic Christian
He was not the first German king to convert to Christianity. He was a full suppoter of the Roman Catholic Church giving the religon even more clout. -
570
Birth of Muhammad
Muhammad was the main supporter of the rise of Islam when he bagain to experience visons that he believed were inspired by Allah. He eventually wrote these revelations down in what is know as the Koran. Muhammad set out to convinve the people of Mecca that the revelations were true. -
Jun 1, 657
Saint Hilda founded the monastery of Whitby
Monasteries became a better second choice for women who did not want to be married off to there father's best friend and possibilty die in childbirth but who wanted to learn and woriship God. Nuns of the seventh and eighth centuries were not always as heavily coloistered as they once had been and were therefore able to play an important role in the spread of Christianity. -
Jun 1, 700
Climate patterens change
Eurpoean weather improved after several centuries of wetter and colder conditions.. Drought or too much rain caused failed crops, famine and diseases -
Jun 1, 730
Leo III outlwaed the use of icons
The Byzantine emperor Leo II outlawed the use of icons to stop the iconoclasts s the opponents of icons were called. With the outlaw of icons this effected religious worship and the way people practiced there religion. -
Jun 1, 731
Ecclesoastical History of the English People was completed
This book was written by a scholar, Bede, who was a product of Christian Angle-Saxon England. The writting was a remarkable product of the flowering of English ecclesiastical and monastic cultural in he eighth century. -
Jun 1, 1086
Domesday Book
The Domesday Book, which William commissioned by sending out royal officials to ascertain who owned or held land in tenancy, modern historians have estimated that the Norman royal family took pissession of about one-fifth of the land in England as the royal domain. -
Jun 1, 1100
Italian merchants start to benefit from the Crusades
The crusades made it possible for new trading centers to be establshed in the easteren ports. The merchants obtained silks, sugar, and spices, which they subsequently carried back to Italy and the west -
Jun 1, 1100
Cities had been repopulated
The old areas of these cities had been repopulated soon the popultion over grew the walls, necessitaying the construction of the new city walls outside the old -
Jun 1, 1100
The rights of townspeople started to be granted
Townspeople were obtaining charers of liberties from their territorial lords that granted them the provileges they wanted, including the right to bequeath goods and sell property, freedom from military obligation to the lord, written urban law that guaranteed their freedom, and the right for serfs to become free after residing a year a day in the town -
Jun 1, 1158
Emperor Frederick Barbossa recognized the Bologna guild
To protect themselves, students at Bologna formed a guild or universitas, which was recognized by Emperor Frederick Barbossa and given charter. -
Jun 1, 1163
Notre-Dame
The Cathedral of Note-Dame was begun but not comleted until the beginning of the fourteenth centry. -
Jun 1, 1200
University of Paris
The king od France, Phili[ Augustus officially acknowledged the existence of the Unoversity if Paris -
Jun 1, 1208
University of Oxford
The University of Oxfprd in England, organized on the Paris model, first appeared. -
Jun 1, 1209
Cambridge University
A migration of scholars from Oxford led to the establishment of Cambride University -
Jun 1, 1300
London largest city
London was the largest city in England with 80,000 people or even more. -
Jun 1, 1335
The first clock striking equal hours was in a church in Milan
"a wonderful clock, with a bery large clapper wich strikes a bell twenty-fpour times according to the twenty-four hours of the day and night and thus at the first hour of the night gives one sounds, at the second two strikes...and so distinguishes one hour from another, which is of gretest use to men of every degree." -
Jan 1, 1349
Condemned the flagellats
Pope Clement VI condemned the flagellants in October and urged the public authorities to sruch them and by the end of 1350 most of them had been destroyed. -
Jan 1, 1358
Jacquerie
A peasant revolt known as Jacquerie broke out in northen France. It was over the destruction of normal ordr by the Black Death and the economic dislocation. -
Oct 1, 1374
The plague reseached Europe
The plague reached Europe, spreading through southern Italy, southeren France, Germany, and the Russia brought by ships carring rats with the plague. -
Nov 17, 1378
Ciompi
The revolt og ciompi in Florence was over the woolen industry depressed, and the wool workers saw their real wages decline when the coinage inn which they were pais was debased. Authorities ended ciompi paricipation in the government by 1382 -
Jun 1, 1381
English Peasants' Revolt
This was the most prominent of all and it was a product not of despertion but of rising expecations -
Jun 1, 1404
The Book of the City of Ladies was written
The Book of the City of Ladies was written by Christine de Pizan where she denounced the many male writers who had argued that women needed to be controlled by men becasue women by their very nature were pron to evil, unable to learn, and easily swayed. -
Jun 1, 1415
Brothels
In Florece the city fathers established communal brothels -
Jun 1, 1500
A reconstruction of the aristocracy
A reconstruction of the aristocracy was well uderway at this point and as a result the nobles who constituted bewteen 2 and 3 percent od the popultion managed to domunated society as they had done in the Middle Ages -
Jun 1, 1500
Printing presses
There were more then a 1,000 printing presses in Europe that had published ober 40,000 titles with 50% of them being relgious in nature -
Jun 1, 1503
The Handbook of the Christian Knight
Written by Desiderius Erasmus this book reflected his precoccupation with religion tot he point he called his cnception of religion "the philosophy of Christ". -
Jun 1, 1511
The Praise of Folly
Written by Erasmus where he engaged in humorous criticism of the most corrupt practices of his oen society -
Jun 1, 1516
New Testament
The New Testament from the earkuest available manuscripts were published with a Latin translation making the word avaible to more and more peopel -
Jun 1, 1525
A school fro girls
The city council of Zwickau established a school for girls to encorage proper moral development -
Jun 1, 1528
The Book of the Courtier
The Book of the Courtier was first published by the Italian Baldassare Castiglione where it soon becme popular throughout Europe and remained fundamental for the aristocats -
Chocolate
Chocolate had been brought to Spain from Aztec Mexico and became a commmon drink -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is published
Jacob Burckhardt publishes The Civilizaion of the Renissance in Italy where he portrayed Italy in the fourtheenth and fifteenth centuries as the birthpplace of the moderen world. -
The Cinfessions and The Cirty of God is written
The Confessions was a spiritual work of writting that was his own personal accounts of his religious experiences written to help others with there religious search. The City of God was written to express Christian philosophy of government and history. -
Frankish church council declared marrage a "indissoluble scrament"
In order to stavilize marriages the practice of concubinage and easy divorce was conedmened created more stable family life. -
The Byzantine Empire condemned homosexuality
Emperor Justinian condemned homosexuality saying it was such practices that brought down the wrath of God and endangered the welfare of the state. -
Italians enter the trading picture
Italian merchants, especially the Venetians entered the trade picture effecting the economy. -
Iconoclasm was finally abolished
Iconocasm was abloshed and reforms where made ine education, church, military, peasant economy, and just about evey social aspect. -
Cyril and Methodius began their work
They created a Slavonic alphabet and used it to translat the Bible. This also lead to the development of Slavonic church services making religon open to more people
