Introduction to the Medieval World: Class 26
Class 26: Political and Cultural Developments after the Black
Death
Assigned Reading:
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Hollister, 329-50
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Map: France
at the Treaty of Bretigny, 1360
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Map: France
at Height of English Power, 1429
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Map: France
in the Late 15th Century
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Map: The
Mongol Empire at the Death of Genghis Khan, 1227
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Map: The
Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan
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Map: Iberia,
1492
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Map: Italy
During the Renaissance
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Map: Europe
in 1519
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Petrarch:
Selected Letters, c. 1372
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Vasari:
Leonardo da Vinci, 1550
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Martin
Luther: 95 Theses, 1517
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Christopher
Columbus: Letter to King and Queen of Spain , prob. 1494
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WWW Reading: The
Development of a World Economic System - A Summary of Immanuel Wallerstein,
The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the
European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic
Press, 1974)
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WWW Extra: Pico
de Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man ", paras 1-7
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WWW Extra: Jonathan Harris: Byzantines
in Renaissance Italy, [At Orb]
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WWW Link: Gardens,
Villas, and Social Life in Renaissance Florence
I. Introduction
A. Yesterday we looked at the Plague
It was obviously devastating, but it was not everything.
-old trends continued to unroll
B. Today we are going to do quick overview the State in the
late medieval west.
C. Vibrancy of medieval civilization - leads into modern world.
II. Economic Activity
Not really looking at late medieval economics.
But one of the BIG THINGS historians try to explain
is why industry and capitalism developed in the West.
We have looked at the commercial revolution,
And the way commerce tied the world together.
But also under way - in the long duree were the processes which
led to the industrial revolution, and hence the modern world.
III. Political Developments
General: a period of destabilization of the gains of the
high middle ages, followed by a period of stronger monarchy
after 1450.
IV. The Empire Falls Apart
V. The Hundred Years War
A. England
B. France
C. Origins of the War
D. On and Off Nature
E. Joan of Arc
VI. The Wars of the Roses
VII. Spain
-Dynastic disputes
-Ferdinand and Isabella - 1492
VIII. Italy
A. Political Disintegration
B. Economic Decline
C. The Renaissance
IX. The End of the Middle Ages?
They begin modern history in Oxford in 476AD.
A. The Renaissance?
B. 1453 - Fall of Constantinople?
C. 1485 - Bosworth Field
D. 1492 - Granada and America
E. 1517 - the Reformation?
F. 1648 - The Treaty of Westphalia?
G. 1687 - Newton's Principia?
H. 1787 - Treaty between Turks and Russians?
I. 1789 - The French Revolution?
J. 1917 - The Russian Revolution?
K. 1968 - New Political consciousness?
X. CONCLUSION ON MEDIEVAL CIVILISATION
Aim of this course was to give you some appreciation
of the breakup of the classical world and the emergence from it
of three vibrant civilizations.
We have concentrated on the West.
The modern world did not spring up in 1500, or 1776.
It emerged from the middle ages.
In modern religion, science art and architecture, the
lessons of the middle ages are still with us.
As we attempt to situate ourselves in the Fourth
dimension a knowledge of the middle ages, while not useful,
is I hope to have shown, very worthwhile.
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