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The Medieval WorldAn Overview
Dr Alex Russell [email protected] Hours: Tuesdays 2-5 pm or by appointment
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•Europe c. 500-1500, from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance
The ‘Middle Ages’
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• 6.5 million km2 at greatest extent (C2nd AD)
• 50-60 million living under pax romana
• Mediterranean = mare nostrum
• Capital at Rome
The Roman Empire
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Scale model of ancient Rome in the time of Constantine
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Constantine the Great, 272-327 AD (bits of a colossal sculpture in the Capitoline Museum, Rome)
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The Decline of Rome
•Decline of Roman Empire from C3rd
•410 Rome sacked by Visigoths
•waves of ‘barbarian’ invasions (or migrations?) - Huns, Lombards, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Franks
•476 last western emperor stands down
•BUT eastern (Byzantine) empire survives
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The Carolingians
• C8th Carolingian dynasty established in Frankish realm
• Charlemagne (r. 768-814)
Shrine of Charlemagne (C13th)
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Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope,
800
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Carolingian Empire
Dark blue = Frankish realm in 714 CELight blue = Extent of empire in 814
CE
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Instability of 10th Century
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Monarchies in western Europe 1154 to 1314
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Italy around 1200
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Expansion of Christianity in Eastern Europe
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The Christian conquest of Spain
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Flux in Byzantine Empire
Brown line = Imperial frontier around 628 CERed line = Imperial frontier around 1025 CE Green line = Imperial frontier around 1143 CE