HIST 1001 Chapter : Origins Of Med Eur - Crusades
Document Summary
English system: final exam questions: how are our ideas classical and our institutions medieval, europe is dominated by the germans-german and roman practices are very different. Africa and spain-money disappeared writings of plat, aristotle, etc. vanish and become unknown to the west: great ancient and christian writings were lost, decline of cities continued. They belonged to the manor: obligations of the farmer (peasant): In the whole complex, there might be 2 teams of oxen. Papacy and holy roman empire: fudulism: gov. that came into existence in time of chaos, two that came out of fudalism: Papacy: head of the roman catholic church (pope), headquarters is the vatican, everybody appreciates pope"s comments, but overlooked is that from 600, had an army, bureaucracy, taxation system, judicial system, ruled. 1860, papacy was political power specific place: rome fell to a german tribe in 476 (ruled by ostrogoths, falls in 540 and byzantine empire rules rome, governed poorly.
