... documents " #1 and #3 "provide examples of Europe being referred to as the Dark Ages. Document 1 states that barbarians have sacked towns and villages, laid waste to the fields, and burned down the churches. All trade has ceased, and the people have gone to cower in forests or have taken refuge in the high mountains. People would live in fear of their lives and could not trust ... judge of them by their philosophy and law, by their poetry and architecture - As depicted by document 10, Gothic architecture was formed during the Middle Ages. This style was used for the Catholic Church. The...

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... amends for these sins by beating themselves with whips. The Catholic Church took the position that flagellantism was a heresy, and it was condemned, while the Black Death was just underway. As you can see, religion was a huge factor on everything and everyone during the Middle ages. Not only were Kings, Popes, and religious advisors held to high religious standards but peasants and normal class people were ... just as effected by the rules and laws of strict religious following. Almost everything that was done during this time was directly related to ... Christianity and the beliefs and...

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... knew neither to read not write, this then in effect caused illiteracy across all of Rome. This also caused the population to plummet because the Romans were leaving. The few that could read and write consisted of Priests and other high church officials. The Germanic tribes had rich oral traditions of storytelling and songs. Therefore, no written language existed. Language also saw a decline. Latin ... aren't classified as slaves, life as a serf still included multiple hardships. Serfs lived on a manor that belonged to a Lord. Peasants never really traveled more than 25 miles away from t...

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The Decline of Medieval Synthesis "In the 14th and 15th centuries the achievements of the High Middle Ages were challenged by a series of crises which threatened to undermine the progress which had been achieved before 1300."(Covington) Before the birth of the Renaissance, serious social, political, and health problems led to the closing of the Middle Ages Era. Disbelief in culture and many uprisings in society led many Europeans to question their way of life ... . The constant problems ... ...

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... would praise their country and slander the opponent. "The period of the Hundred Years" War witnessed the final flowering of the aristocratic code of medieval chivalry" (McKay,Hill,etc. 393). The aristocracy used the war as a way to display chivalry and their sense of nobility. The chivalric code only applied to those of high social status and knighthood. The final crisis in the late Middle Ages is the lack of participants in religious activity ... . Many people had "lost the faith" due to the unscrupuless characters of many of the religious figures of that time. Many people were distraug...

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... for entertaining or teaching lessons as they are used for now. "They were used to satirize the famous and "noble"" (Borgia 1). To avoid the fear of incarceration or a charged that would indefinitely lead to death, they would make up names to mock or ridicule someone of a high status in society. A bard dare not openly and obviously satirize their King and Queen, as this ... would lead to certain imprisonment. So, to avoid this, they wrote rhymes to tell the tales and used nicknames for the characters they were portraying. (Borgia 1) These rhymes were told in bars and ... ? Yes, marry, ha...

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