The Middle Ages Explained in Under 60 Minutes

Описание: 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