Notes 4/12 - 4/16

1. Futile System
• Social classes
• No social nobility - could not leave the class you were born into
2. A cow cost five shillings.
3. The value of your life was determined by the class into which you were born.
4. Three classes: monks/priests, nobles/knights, and workers.
5. Laws were very unjust, and everyone except the very rich was excluded.
6. Sophisticated logic
7. Supernatural events are recorded often
• Sightings of strange creatures
8. All living things belong to three categories - animals, humans, and spiritual beings
9. They believed in weird creatures like "Dog heads"
10. Change from writing on papyrus to animal hide.
11. Books were called manuscripts - written on animal hide
12. Books were valuable and rare because they were tedious to write out.
13. Capetian Dynasty - allied relationship with the church

The CHURCH - the MOST powerful leader in Europe.

14. Pope Urban II calls for the first Crusade in 1095.
15. Jerusalem was the center of the world in Medieval mind.
16. First Crusade is a complete failure.
17. Romanesque art - 1000-1100
18. 1100-1400 - Gothic art
19. Churches were built like fortresses and were the center of the town
20. Romanesque - round archways, dark and oppressive - judgment and death
21. Goth - images of light - life and hope