HIS220Y1 Lecture Notes - Middle Ages
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Actions ( act) and passions ( suffer) Motives ( something that moves you to act) ; love moves people to act (in)appropriately. Focus on micro-geography to establish context of medieval towns and society. Need to know geography of medieval europe: mountains, rivers, terrain, cities, and towns. Chronology established by looking at the sun. Day and night are both divided into 12 equal portions. Daylight hours are longer in summer and shorter in the winter. Days of the week and months were not given importance except for sunday. Dates are according to saint"s days and feast days. Period when roman empire, barbarian society and catholic church co-existed together and interacted with each other ( 500ad to 1500ad) Medieval calendar starts on 25 march since that was when gabriel visited mary. 1500 roman empire is disappearing and overcome by the rise of states. 1st act 1ad -500ad --roman act. 2nd act 500-1000 ad barbarian act : celts, nordics.
