HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
LECTURE OUTLINE SIX
- HIGH MIDDLE AGES (C.1050-1300) ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
- First Agricultural Revolution
- causes and consequences
- impact on trade and towns/cities
- Manorialism
- definiton of manorialism
- definition of feudalism
- characteristics of the relationship between lords and serfs
- demesne and open fields
- improvements in the live of lords and serfs and reasons for the improvement
- decline of serfdom and the rise of chivalry
- Revival of Trade and Urban Revolution
- impacts of the agricultural revolution upon trade and cities
- trade and its characteristics
- merchant guilds and craft guilds
- significance of the urban revolution
- FEUDALISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL MONARCHIES
- (from decentralized feudalism to the development of political centralization)
- definition of feudalism (recap)
- Germany
- strengths under Otto the Great
- the investiture struggle between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII
- the impact of the struggle upon Germany's decentralization and decline
- Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire
- Frederick II and Italy
- Italy (overview and instability)
- DEVELOPMENT OF FEUDALISM DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
- DID FEUDALISM CONTRIBUTE TO POLITICAL PROGRESS?
- POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (GROWTH OF A NATIONAL MONARCHY) IN ENGLAND
- England and feudalism after the Norman Conquest
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- reign of Henry I
- Henry II and his struggle with Thomas Becket (Consitutions of Clarendon in 1164)
- Henry II and his other policies
- Richard the "Lionhearted"
- King John and the Magna Carta (1215)
- Henry III (High Courts and the Chancery)
- Edward I and his policies (the origin of Parliament)
- Edward I and his limitation of the barons (decline of feudalism)
- POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (GROWTH OF A NATIONAL MONARCHY) IN FRANCE
- centralization developed more slowly in France than in England
- factors that contributed to the growth of the French monarchy
- Louis VI (Louis the Fat) and his policies
- Philip Augustus and the development of the monarchy--the "baillis"
- policies of Philip IV (Philip the Fair)
- COMPARISON OF CENTRALIZING POLICIES IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE
- HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL MONARCHIES
- HIGH MIDDLE AGES (C.1050-1300) RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS--RISE AND DECLINE OF THE PAPAL MONARCHY
- corruption of religious life in the 10th century
- religious revival
- monastic reform
- attacks against simony
- papal reform and the 1059 decree on papal elections
- Pope Gregory VII and his new visions of the papacy (the basis of the papal monarchy)
- the investiture struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV of Germany
- impact of the investiture struggle upon Germany and the papal monarchy
- Concordat of Worms (1122)
- growth of the papal monarchy after Gregory VII
- the papacy of Innocent III
- his contributions to the growth of the papal monarchy
- Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
- the loss of papal integrity with the onset of political crusades
- Pope Boniface VIII and factors contributing to the decline of the papal monarchy