Philosophy and Art in the 12th-14th Centuries

1. What you think comes from what you know
• Your thoughts are based off of what you already know about something; if you were to think about something entirely new to you without any prior info. Then you would not have much to think about
2. The Normands brought the old French language
• They also brought the Bible
3. Nationalism - when people of a country don’t want to deal with the people and things outside their country; they lock out everything else because they think they are dominant to everyone else.
4. England rises in power in the 14th century
• That rise was due to the way the English monarchs developed their dynasties

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The Struggle of the Orders changed the way that Rome could make decisions. Before, the Patricians could and did make laws whenever they wanted to, but the Struggle of the Orders took away some of the power from the Patricians. After the struggle, the Plebeians were able to veto any law that Patricians put forth. This gave them a large amount of power, because the Patricians could no longer do something the Plebeians did not approve of. The Republic had been founded only fifteen years before this change, so it obviously did not take long for the Plebeians to figure out the injustice happening. However, after the Struggle of the Orders the Patricians still held a considerable amount of power, so they did not let the Plebeians completely take away the power they had. Politics in Rome did not, for the most part, change, except that the Plebeians were no longer the sole individuals with any power.

The Middle Ages

1. FRANCE
2. During the middle ages the church was the strongest
3. In 1095 Pope Urban II called for the first holy war, or the First Crusade
• They sent European warriors to try and take over Jerusalem
• The Muslim armies were much stringer and more organized than the Europeans
• First Crusade is a failure
4. The early middle ages (1,000-late 11th century) is when the artwork was categorized as Romanesque
5. 1100-1400 = Gothic art
6. The Romanesque churches of the early middle ages were built like fortresses
• If there was an attack, the people would go to the cathedral
• The sculpture on the cathedrals represent the theology
7. Architecture
• Romanesque
• Very round archways
• Very fortress-like
• Judgment Day
• Gothic
• Light
• Stained-glass
• Windows
• Elegance
• Openness
• Hope
• Annunciation
8. Freedom
• You were born into your social class
• If you were born peasant you would die a peasant