KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Late Middle Ages, Primogeniture, Manorialism
6 Dec 2017
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Must have an aim: how to balance wants/ needs, means/ ends, develop good moral character. Notion of moral virtue: character trait that will lead us to good: ancient greeks and romans: we see a con ict of virtues. Roman: sport for bad: con ict of virtues: ancient sport. What you need to know: basic political and social structure of the medieval period. Decline of ancient rome: internal political, social and demographic struggles, idea of the bigger you get the more you crumble. Collapse of the roman empire in the west. #1: eastern roman empire survives as the byzantine empire until 1453 bce. The middle ages: early: 5th to 11th centuries (c. 400ce-c. 1000ce, high: 11th to 14th centures (1000ce-c. 1300bce, late: 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300 ce-c. 1500 bce, only interested in high and late periods for sport. Early middle ages: de-urbanization, depopulation, migration, spread of christianity across europe. Begins in rome, spreads outward by 11th century all of europe is devoted to.
