TheMiddleAges中世纪 ppt课件

Periodization
Dark Ages: 500 – 1000 High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250 Late Middle Ages: 1250 - 1500
Europe in 600AD
The Middle Ages
• Part 1: The Dark Ages (AD 476 – AD 1000)
• Similar to how the Romans used the ‘barbarians’ to highlight their own cultural achievements
Recap: what were the Middle Ages?
The Dark Ages (476 – 1000) and a revival 振兴 of civilisation in the 2) High Middle Ages (1000 – 1463) 1000 year period dominated by the Germanic ‘barbarians’
military service.
Chivalry: A Code of Honour and Behaviour
• Most historians argue that the development of European civilisation was limited or even regressed 倒退 during the ‘Dark Ages’...
Comparisons with the Roman Empire...
Comparisons with the Roman Empire...
• Many of the improvements introduced by the Romans deteriorated 衰败: roads, water-supplies, shipping routes...
• There were regular wars and invasions
• Unlike the Roman Empire with its one all-powerful emperor, Europe developed into small fiefdoms 封地; each governed by a local lord
• This division meant that knowledge spread slowly; as communication was difficult and dangerous
• Significant knowledge was lost when the Roman empire collapsed & we know little about the Dark Ages because of a lack of written sources
Feudalism
A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and
~ Began in AD 476 when there was no longer an emperor in Rome & the Western empire collapsed
• Part 2: The High Middle Ages (AD 1000 – AD 1463)
~ A period of cultural recovery
பைடு நூலகம் The term ‘Middle Ages’
• The term ‘Middle Ages’ is a sweeping and often derogatory 贬义 term, first used by Renaissance 文艺复兴 scholars in the 1400s
The term ‘Middle Ages’
‘The Middle Ages:’ term used by Renaissance scholars to represent a period of ‘darkness’
between the Greek/Roman civilisations and the Renaissance
‘Civilisation’ in the Dark Ages (476 – 1000)
• Idea of a thousand-year period of ignorance between the Greek/Roman civilisations and the ‘enlightened’ 开明 Renaissance
• Inventing the Middle Ages to distinguish 区 别 themselves from it and highlight their own superior 优越 culture
The Middle Ages (476 – 1463)
Chapter 5 pp.87 – 106
Question to consider ~
• During this class I want you to think about this question:
~ Some view the Middle Ages as a period of limited civilisation, especially when compared with the Roman/Greek civilisations. Do you agree? Why? Why not?
The Middle Ages ~
• Dominance of Germanic people (the ‘barbarians’); who still lived a relatively
primitive (basic) lifestyle
Barbarians – from the Latin barbarus meaning ‘strange’