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- Middle
Ages
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The Apostles at
Chartres Cathedral
The Rose Window at
Chartres
(1240-1250 AD)
Chartres
Cathedral (1194-1260)
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Key Questions
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- How did the English language evolve
from Celtic to Old English to Middle English?
- How did Christianity come to
England?
- Can we see the Beowulf story from
Grendel's point of view?
- What is the relationship between
the mode of production and the values and economic/political/social
structures in medieval Europe?
- Describe how Augustine's theology influenced
the medieval worldview.
- How did Thomas Aquinas synthesize
faith and reason in scholasticism?
- How is the medieval realm the
foundation for modern Europe?
- What motivated the main
developments in musical texture from the homophony of Gregorian Chant to the early polyphony of
the Ars Nova?
- How did medieval music reflect the
changes occurring socially in the Late Middle Ages?
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Middle Ages Political,
Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious
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Middle Ages
Art:
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Middle Ages
Literature:
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Middle Ages
Music:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Romanesque
Architecture:
Romanesque
Sculpture:
Gothic Architecture:
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Gregorian Chant:
- Gregorian Chant,
Mass for Christmas Day: Kyrie, (c.600?)
- Gregorian Chant,
Sequence for Easter, Victimae,
(c.600?)
- Gregorian Chant, Psalm 109: Dixit
dominus,
(c.600)
Ars Antigua:
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Cross of Muredach 923 AD
Chartres
Cathedral (1194-1260)
St. Denis Nave
(1137 AD)
Sainte Foy
Tympanum
(1050-1120 AD)
Sutton Hoo Purse Cover
(625 AD)
Virgin and Child,
Notre Dame Paris
14th c.
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Middle Ages
Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious
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Middle Ages
Art:
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Middle Ages
Literature:
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Middle Ages
Music:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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- The
End of Europe’s Middle Ages (Calgary)
- Britain in 380 AD
(MAP)
- Chadwick,
Celtic Britain
(1963)
- Shaw, Who Killed the Men of England? (2009)
- Saint-Denis, a town in the
Middle Ages
- Medieval Social Hierarchy Page
(Montclair State)
- The papacy, religious change
and church reform, (1049-1125) (St. Andrews
School)
- Gilliam, The Genius of El Cid
- The First Crusade:
Sanctifying War: Overview (Norton Anthology); The Crusades
(Documents)
- Papal
Planning Caused the Crusades; The
Crusades Were an Episode in European Expansion; Popular
Consensus Enabled the Crusade(Mosaic)
- Map of the First Three
Crusades
- The Middle Ages: An
Introduction (Norton Anthology); King Arthur: Romancing
Politics: Overview (Norton Anthology)
- Genghis
Khan - founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires
(BBC)
- The Early Islamic Conquests by Fred Donner (extract from his book)
- Ockham's
Razor - cutting medieval philosophy down to size
(BBC
radio)
- 1470 Occam's razor and engineering design
- 33 Perpetua Mobile and the Medieval mind
- 57 Ceremony in the manufacture of a Samurai sword
- 476 Lynn White, the stirrup, and the feudal system
- 312 Old technology faces new at the Battle of Hastings
- 625 The crossbow competes with guns and long bows -- and loses
- 546 Trotula and medieval women's m
- 607 Hi-technology windmills come to Kent in 1200 AD
- 999 The invention of eyeglasses ca. 1286, and the rise of reading
- 1008 Who really were the discoverers of America before Columbus?
- 1228 Medieval Europe learns to measure reality with numbers
- 1406 The end of the medieval age of reason
- 1417 In which the medieval clock metaphor finally collapses
- 1469 The hourglass: the poor man's clock, the poor man's metaphor
- 1419 Another way of looking at the 14th century Plague
- 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success
- 1535 The mechanical clock as tactile philosophy
- 1562 Guido da Vigevano uses war as an excuse to invent
- 1823 Inventing zero
- 1913 The medieval invention of the city street
- 2097 Constantine the African bringing Arab medicine to Europe
- 2282 In which the Gokstad Viking ship tells its story
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