HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Barrel Vault, Neume, Gregorian Chant
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Feudalism: custom of patronage under which a ruler provided protection in exchange for work and loyalty, this created an agrarian economy and the lower classes worked land and did military duty. Fiefs: the land worked by the lower classes. Santiago de compostela: a popular spot for pilgrimages in northern spain. Pilgrimages were encouraged for sanitary and economic reasons. Europe was becoming increasingly urban, and basic hygiene was lacking. Christians were encouraged to make pilgrimages to curry favor with god and ward off disease, as well as saving their souls. It made money for the church and related towns. Henry ii: accidentally instigated the death of becket, this made becket a martyr. Charlemagne: wanted to unite all of europe and wanted to unite church and state, church and kings competed for royalty, this made art and music flourish. Thanes the lords of the king: knights. Ceorls (churls: freemen that owned land.
