The Middle Ages

The middle ages are a period that covers ages between 1066 and 1485. During the middle ages the priviliged code was by all people respected because the ultimate end was the salvation.

*CODE: religious and chivalric problems but also illitteracy => oral literature => ballad

*BALLAD: oral text handed down fron generation to generation. It principally shows human (mother/father-son =>Lord Randal) and social relations.

There were also other forms of art besides literature in the middle ages, such as music, poetry, painting, sculture and architecture => GOTIC ARCHITECTURE => its forms go upward and so toward God.

The society was highly organized:

THE MIDDLE AGES

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1. Pope ==================== > religion chivalry code

2. king => feudal systems

3. nobles => <=

4. serfs literature

=> <=

common people aristocracy

(oral ballads) (written epic poems)

languages:

latin => church => lawyers

old english => people

french => court

The MAGNA CARTA was the result of a process of negtiation and power between the king ( King John Lackaland) and the barons.

• What part of english do we refer of when we speak about middle ages?

  The middle ages cover a period of history that goes from 1066 to 1485.

   

• Why is 1066 a very crucial date?

  It is very important because it marks the norman conquest, and it is so called because the Normans were invadors of England and they came from Northern France, they had French nationality because they came from Britain.

• Who were te Anglo Saxons?

  The Anglo Saxons were a tribe of Northern Germany. They entered in Grate Britain and ruled until the invasion of the Normans. They spoke Germanic and they divided Great Britain in seven kingdoms.

   

• Why was Willaim I Conqueos so important?

  He was so important because he introduced the feudal system. He brought a new social organization into Great Britain called the feudal system according to wich the king or emperor divides between.

   

• Does he apply it in the same way in Europe?

  No he doesn't, because he was afraid of the power of vassals, barons and knights, so he distribuited little land to not put his power at risk.