The Later Middle Ages

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The Later Middle Ages

• By E. Compton

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Christianity and Medieval Society
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The church shapes politics and society

• A clergy was a church official. They were very
  influential in medieval Europe culture and
  politics.
• In the middle ages life revolved around the
  local church
• Many people left land to the church when they
  died.

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Monks and Friars
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The Monks of Cluny

• They lived outside of normal community.
• As compared to Friars who are just like Monks but
  they do live in a community.
• The Monks of Cluny established a new religious
  order.

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Friars

• Francis of Assisi was the founder of the
  Franciscan order.
• Friars were members of religious orders who lived
  and worked among the general public.
• The Friars unlike the Monks lived inside a
  community.

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Universities are Built
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Universities

• The Dominican friar Thomas Aquinas wrote a
  reasoned argument for the existence of God.
• Europe's first universities were built by the
  church.
• One similarity between them is that they both
  took tests.
• He also developed a philosophilical system called
  natural law

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The church and the Arts
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Church and Arts

• The great Gothic cathedrals of late medieval
  Europe are among the most beautiful of all
  architectural achievements.

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Religious Architecture
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Religious Architecture

• Everything inside the church, from walls to the
  clergys robes to the books used, were also works
  of art.
• Their spires and high ceilings and colorful
  stained glass windows are all designed to bring
  people closer to God.

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Magna Carta causes changes in England
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Magna Carta

• A group of English nobles were the ones who
  created Magna Carta by forcing the king to
  respect their rights.

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Effects of Magna Carta
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Effects

• One right was that no one could be kept in jail
  without reason, and even the king must obey the
  law.
• Another one of these rights was that everyone had
  the right to a fair trial.

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Changes after Magna Carta
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Changes

• The kings turned to a council of nobles for
  advice and money.
• Before long, the council developed into
  Parliament.

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The Hundred Years War
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The Course of the War

• The king of France eventually died without a male
  heir.
• Congnatic primogeniture and British claims to the
  French throne.
• In England, the war helped increase the power of
  Parliament.
• Joan of Arc was a teenage peasant girl that
  railed the French troops.

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Results of the War

• Changes in England-the war helped increase the
  power of Parliament.
• Changes in France-the kings power grew after the
  war.
• Democracy in France will have to wait-during the
  war, the king had become very powerful

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The Black Death
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Where it Came From

• The plague came from the central and eastern Asia

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How the Plague Spread

• People from China and Mongolia came with infected
  fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and that
  were transported to Italy, and France.

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What Disease Was It?

• Primarily carried by rodents (most notably rats)
  and spread to humans via fleas.

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Effect on Manor Life

• Not only did the black death take a devastating
  toll on human life, since serfs could often leave
  their manors and make a better living in cities.

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What Happened To It?

• At the end everyone started to clean everything
  up.They never found a cure.