Florida Standards
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Textbook Chapter 12 pages 277-302
Chapter 12 Workbook Pages
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Unit 5 Notes and Assignments
Role and Power of the Church in the Middle Ages
The Crusades: Causes, Effects, and Lasting Impact
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Culture during the Middle Ages
The concept of the modern university began in the Middle Ages. The most popular subject of study was theology. Theology students were influenced by a philosophical practice known as scholasticism, which attempted to reconcile faith with the reasoning from ancient Greece and Rome.
Vernacular literature also grew in popularity. Types of vernacular literature included tales about knights doing heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales or the Song of Roland are good examples. Bother were written int he common language o the people allowing for more readers. |
The Black Death
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The history of a nursery rhyme — Ring around the Rosieby Jon Schladweiler, Historian of the Arizona Water Pollution Control Federation
One of the more fascinating parts of life is to realize that everything around us has a basis or a derivation, i.e., a history. Even one of folklore’s most familiar rhymes — that many of us remember from our childhoods — Ring Around The Rosie, tells (according to many) a story about tragic times in civilization’s past … i.e., the great plagues that killed hundreds of thousands of people through the ages. One of the more popular versions of this rhyme reads as follows:
Ring around the rosie,
Pockets full of posies;
Atischoo, atischoo, (or, Ashes, ashes)
We all fall down.
Two of the more well-known plagues that devastated the European area in the Middle Ages were the Black Death in the years 1347-50, and the great London Plague of 1665. Rhymes/songs were a way for common folk to tell stories to each other, and a way of carrying those stories over to succeeding generations.
One of the more common interpretations of this rhyme is as follows:
Ring around the rosie,
[refers to the rosie-red (or purple-ish) round rash marks on the skin —one of the first signs a person had the plague]
A pocket full of posies;
[one of the superstitious ways used by people in the Middle Ages to try and fend off the plague was to stuff their pockets with posies (flowers)]
Atischoo, atischoo,
[sneezing was also an early sign of the plague if it was a pneumonic plague; however, not all types of plague involved sneezing]
or, Ashes, ashes
[the dead were often cremated]
We all fall down.
[most of the people strickened with the plague died]
One of the puzzling pieces of information regarding this rhyme, is that its first known/recognized date of existence was in the early 1880’s — 215 years after the London Plague and over 530 years after the Black Death. Such time differences don’t mean (in and of themselves) that the story wasn’t told (about these plagues) until hundreds of years later. It may just mean that this particular rhyme about the plagues wasn’t written until long after the event. Or, maybe it was written much earlier, but it was not then considered appropriate to say; so it may have gone dormant until the 1880’s — when the terribleness of the plagues was much forgotten, and the rhyme could resurface. We may never know for sure. Several versions of the rhyme exist; however, most are interpreted to mean much the same thing. We may never know the actual reason behind the words chosen for this rhyme — but it is interesting to try and surmise this folk rhyme’s true meaning.
One of the more fascinating parts of life is to realize that everything around us has a basis or a derivation, i.e., a history. Even one of folklore’s most familiar rhymes — that many of us remember from our childhoods — Ring Around The Rosie, tells (according to many) a story about tragic times in civilization’s past … i.e., the great plagues that killed hundreds of thousands of people through the ages. One of the more popular versions of this rhyme reads as follows:
Ring around the rosie,
Pockets full of posies;
Atischoo, atischoo, (or, Ashes, ashes)
We all fall down.
Two of the more well-known plagues that devastated the European area in the Middle Ages were the Black Death in the years 1347-50, and the great London Plague of 1665. Rhymes/songs were a way for common folk to tell stories to each other, and a way of carrying those stories over to succeeding generations.
One of the more common interpretations of this rhyme is as follows:
Ring around the rosie,
[refers to the rosie-red (or purple-ish) round rash marks on the skin —one of the first signs a person had the plague]
A pocket full of posies;
[one of the superstitious ways used by people in the Middle Ages to try and fend off the plague was to stuff their pockets with posies (flowers)]
Atischoo, atischoo,
[sneezing was also an early sign of the plague if it was a pneumonic plague; however, not all types of plague involved sneezing]
or, Ashes, ashes
[the dead were often cremated]
We all fall down.
[most of the people strickened with the plague died]
One of the puzzling pieces of information regarding this rhyme, is that its first known/recognized date of existence was in the early 1880’s — 215 years after the London Plague and over 530 years after the Black Death. Such time differences don’t mean (in and of themselves) that the story wasn’t told (about these plagues) until hundreds of years later. It may just mean that this particular rhyme about the plagues wasn’t written until long after the event. Or, maybe it was written much earlier, but it was not then considered appropriate to say; so it may have gone dormant until the 1880’s — when the terribleness of the plagues was much forgotten, and the rhyme could resurface. We may never know for sure. Several versions of the rhyme exist; however, most are interpreted to mean much the same thing. We may never know the actual reason behind the words chosen for this rhyme — but it is interesting to try and surmise this folk rhyme’s true meaning.
100 Years War
Study Guide and Review Game
Directions: To be best prepared for your test review the textbook chapters, your notes, handouts, and goal sheet from the unit. Answer the questions below using your work and the textbook chapters from this unit.
1. Describe the causes, spread, and effects of the Black Death on Europe. 2. How did people try to cure the Black Death? 3. Explain the Great Schism of 1378. 4. Who called for the first Crusade? Why? 5. Why did people go and fight in the crusades? 6. What was the purpose of the Crusades? Were the Crusades successful? 7. What was the results of the third Crusade? 8. What happened during the fourth Crusade? 9. What is scholasticism? What was the goal? 10. What is lay investiture? How did this lead to the Investiture Controversy? What was the outcome? 11. What were the causes of the Hundred Years' War? 12. Who was Joan of Arc? What did she do? What happened to her? 13. What were the effect of the Hundred Years' War on England and France? 14. What was the Inquisition? What were they searching for? 15. What role did the church play in people's lives during the Middle Ages? |
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