FEUDAL EUROPE TO 1200

I.) BIRTH OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE

1. More Invasions: Shift from the Med. Center to N. Europe
2. Advances in Agricultural Techniques: Plow, Yoke, 3-Field System
3. The Dawson Thesis: Integration of the Three Cultures
4. The Situation of the Byzantine Empire, Muslim Consolidation, European Defense

II.) THE CAROLINGIAN GASP

1. Charles Martel and the pivotal Battle of Tours, 732
2. Pope Stephen II made The Short Pepin III a King, 754; Pepin made the Pope the Papal States
3. Carolus Magnus (768-814): inherited what the Saxons St Boniface and Alcuin had to offer
4. Crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Christmas Day 800
5. Pushed borders outward in all directions; Missi Dominici from Aachen
6. Louis the Pious to the Treaty of Verdun, 856; More invasions within and without
7. Legacy of Charlemagne: Eigenkirche, Holy Roman Empire, Song of Roland, Ideal Unity

III.) THE FEUDAL SYSTEM (SYSTEM?)

1. Manorialism
   • Economic Self-Subsistence of the Lord's Manor & Fiefs
   • Closed, Isolated, Defensive Pockets of Agrarian Society
   • Elements of the Manor: serf, nobles, priest, artisanal activities, minstrels, woodmen
2. Feudalism (takes a long time to build a Pyramid) & some complexities
   • Free Political Contract between those who are Free
   • The Lord giveth and the Vassal taketh away, and vice versa
   • The Fief and the Knight: Business of Court, local and central
   • Castles (Earlier and Later)
3. The Code of Chivalry & Secular Education (Case Study in Tristan & Iseult)
   • Ladies of the Court: Courtly Manners and Literature
   • Medieval Women; Eleanor of Aquitaine
   • Chivalric & Feudal Values:

IV.) MEDIEVAL "CHRISTENDOM"

1. The Place of the Sacramental System, Bishops, Popes in Daily Life; On-Line-Labyrinth
2. Survey of Monastic Life, Culture, Significance, Influence; Story of a monk's trip to school, ca. 975
3. The Papacy: The Investiture Contest, 1070s; Papacy in the High Middle Ages
4. The Norman Invasion of England, 1066
   1. The Norman/Angegin Empire: King Henry II and Queen Eleanor
   2. "The Lion in Winter" and her Four Kings to Magna Carta
5. Spain: Quasi-Crusade but Real Reconquista
6. The Capetian Dynasty in France: Paradigm for the Growth of Royal Power
7. Italian City-States: Mercantile Republics but no true "Italy"
8. Pope Urban's Call at the Council of Clermont, 1095; The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099 ff; Map of Europe at the Time of the First Crusade
9. Crusades Chronology -- Online Sources
   • Middle Eastern Latins: Economy, Military Orders, Counter-Crusade
   • Battle of Hattin and Saladin's Consolidation, 1187 ff; The Later Crusades
   • Pub-lic results
10. The Invention of the Collegium et Universitas in the Middle Ages;
11. Twelfth Century Renaissance; Abelard's Critical Method

• Romanesque and Gothic: Survey of Medieval Architecture
• Literature, Law, Gov't, Philosophy, Science, History, Theology, Medicine, Games

The Growth of Royal Power + Growth of Urban Power = Decay of Feudal Lords