HSTY1002 Final: Age of Empires Whole Semester

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: History
• Course: HSTY1002
• Professor: Dr Helene Sirantoine

Document Summary

Claiming and assigning imperial authority in the high and late middle ages. (the medieval history journal) A dynasty of prestige and/or power either by monarchy, socioeconomic position or influence. Before the empire": imperium and imperatores in medieval times. Etymologies the study of the origins of words or parts of words and how they have arrived at their current form and meaning. For the romans, the title imperator was at first given only to those on whom supremacy in military affairs was settled, and therefore the imperatores were so called from commanding" (imperare) the army. But although generals held command for a long time with the tile of imperator, the senate declared that this was the name of augustus caesar only, and he would be distinguished by this title from other kings" of nations. To this day the successive caesars have employed his title. At the dawn of the middle ages: the carolingian empire (mid-8th to 10th c. )