The Medieval Ages that descended upon the Europeans following the deconstruction and devolution of the formerly grand institutions of the Roman Empire left a world darkened to the eyes of history. The world lost touch with simple concepts to a modern history student of writing, economy, culture, and government-the mainstay of that which we cannot see ourselves without-civilization. What was left of Europe was a state of chaos. In all other periods of human history I have studied there were similarities among them from which I could draw conclusions upon the condition of the respective times. The Text helped to give order to the progression of European history from the ancient to the modern drawing from the former to explain the thoughts and traditions that carried through the dark times as the only ruminants of civilization. .
The dark ages didn't come to dominate the era for which it is named like the flip of a switch or by the sacking of Rome by Alaric, or any other German Chief. It wasn't a single force; such as the struggle with the Germans or the ineptitude of Roman Emperors or the breakdown of political processes it was all of these influences and more combining to strangulate the social institutions of their Stability. Without stability security is harder to maintain and both are needed to promote profitable economic activity. .
Roman society in the western Empire had slowly developed into a subsistence plantation society comparable to the American antebellum southern society of the 19th century. Government institutions slowly died out, as did any form of an economic market. The majority of the population was enslaved. There was little civilization save the aristocracy for the Germans to destroy even when they came to the area.
Rome had become a corrupt political center, to become Emperor was to sign your own death warrant, therefore the only people interested were the most unskilled the empire had yet seen.
T H White in his Midevil novel, The Once and Future King, written in 1965 portrays in Book III the development of the character of Lancelot, a man who reaches many goals through the many trials and tribulations of a growing man in the midevil times. ...
The Mystery of Loch Ness: What Lies Inside Do you beleive in ghosts, vampires, aliens or that there is a bigfoot? Some people beleive in these, some people don't. People try and try to get evidence for these things. Some people claim to have taken pictures of aliens and UFO's and such things,...
Family Robert Winch- a set of persons related to each other by blood, marrige, or adoption. Family constitutes a social system who's structure is specified by familial position and whos basic sociatal function is replacement. US Census- a family is a group of two or more persons related by bl...
The Personality of War We know very little of the first several hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. In this paper I will discuss their warband history and why their lives were full of battles and great stories. Our earliest records of them are little more than highly inventive lists of rulers. We know that they established separate kingdoms, the Saxons settling in the south and west, the Angles in the east and north, and the Jutes on the Isle of Wight and the mainland opposite. They probably thought of themselves ...
We know very little of the first several hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. In this paper I will discuss their warband history and why their lives were full of battles and great stories. Our earliest records of them are little more than highly inventive lists of rulers. We know that they established separate kingdoms, the Saxons settling in the south and west, the Angles in the east and north, and the Jutes on the Isle of Wight and the mainland opposite. They probably thought of themselves as separate peoples, but th...
The Dark Ages of Europe were called such for several reasons. One of the more notorious reasons was the state of the Catholic Church. In the years before the Reformation, members of the Catholic clergy had reached an all time low in terms of their morality. The abuses of clerical power and privileges by the medieval clergy spanned all parts of their daily lives. Members of the Catholic clergy were financially, politically and socially corrupt. ...
