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The Middle Ages Explained in Under 60 Minutes

Discover the period from 376 - 1500 from the fall of Rome until the end of the middle ages. Content: The Huns & the Great Migration Visigoths cross the Danube (376) Sack of Rome by Alaric (410) – psychological collapse The last emperors & imperial decay Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus (476) East vs. West - Birth of the Byzantine Empire Clovis & the Frankish conversion (496) Merovingians vs. Carolingians Pepin the Short & papal alliance Charlemagne’s empire Coronation as Emperor (Christmas 800) Viking raids begin (Lindisfarne, 793) Magyar & Saracen invasions Rise of feudalism - protection for loyalty Monasticism - Monte Cassino & Cluny Carolingian Renaissance & Alcuin of York Caroline minuscule & the survival of Latin texts Europe’s revival - climate, population, towns The Three Estates - pray, fight, work Castles, knights, and chivalry (ideal vs. reality) Pope Gregory VII & the Investiture Controversy First Crusade called (1095, Clermont) Crusader States & fall of Jerusalem (1099–1187) Heresy - Cathars & Waldensians Inquisition (1231) & rise of mendicant orders Urban boom - Flanders, Champagne fairs, guilds Birth of universities (Bologna, Paris, Oxford) Thomas Aquinas & faith-reason synthesis Norman Conquest & Domesday Book (1066–1086) Magna Carta (1215) – roots of constitutionalism Capetian rise & Philip IV vs. the Pope The Great Famine (1315–1317) Black Death arrives (1347) Plague’s death toll & social impact Peasant empowerment & anti-Semitism Hundred Years War begins (1337) English victories - Crécy (1346), Agincourt (1415) Joan of Arc & French resurgence War ends (1453) - Calais remains English Western Schism (1378–1417) – three popes Council of Constance (1414–1418) restores unity Literature - Dante, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan Gothic architecture & Giotto’s realism Fall of Constantinople (1453) – Byzantium ends Greek scholars flee west with classical texts Gutenberg Bible printed (1455) Columbus sails (1492) - Reconquista & New World Petrarch’s “Dark Age” vs. modern view Feudalism fades, monarchies rise Humanism stirs in Italy Printing press = information revolution Medieval legacy - law, universities, identity Europe on the cusp of global empire