Transcript The High and Late Middle Ages Section 4: Learning and

The High and Late Middle Ages
Section 4: Learning and Culture Flourish
• Medieval Universities
– Clergy schools evolve
into universities
– Student life
– Liberal Arts (7)
– Women and education
• Religion in Education
– Conflict between faith
and reason/learning
– Scholasticism
– St. Thomas Aquinas
• Medieval Literature
– New Languages used
– Song of Roland – heroic epic
– Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
– Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
• Architecture
– Romanesque to Gothic
• Art
– Stained Glass Windows
Section 5: A Time of Crisis
• Black Death – Bubonic Plague
– Spread from Rats/Fleas in Asia
– Carried by Traders
– Began in Europe - Approximately
1347
– Passed through Italy, Spain,
France
– Theories – God’s Punishment,
Jewish plot
– Impact on the Economy
– More than 25 Million dead
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Upheaval in the Church
Pope Clement moves the Church in 1309
1378 – Schism, Two Popes
1417 – Council at Constance returns
church to Rome
• Corruption in the Church
• Heresy – Jan Hus (Hussites)
• John Wycliffe
• The Hundred Years’ War
– 1337-1453
– France and England
– England’s claim to the French Throne (1337)
– England’s early victories
– New Weapons
• Crossbow, Longbow, Cannon
– Joan of Arc (France) – 17yr old Peasant
woman
• France battles back, Joan of Arc captured and
killed
• Martyr, Sainthood
– Impact of the War
• End of Knighthood
• England and France – sense of nationalism