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I was interested in Elanor of Aquitaine since she is described as one of the most powerful women during the High Middle Ages. I wanted to know about her children and family life. She had two daughters with King Louis VII and 8 other children (6 sons, 2 daughters) with Knig Henry II. King Henry was not a faithful husband. He had children with many other women while married to Elanor.
In the reading, it mentioned that despite the differences between the Orthodox and Roman Churches, Alexius Comnenus (Byzantine Emperor) asked the Pope to help him confront the Muslims . I wanted to learn more about who Alexius was and what some of the things he did as emperor were. I found this great site which speaks more about Alexius as an emperor and some of the things he did for the Byzantine Empire. Alexius made the first crusade after finishing a treaty with the Turks and then asking Pope Urban the second to help him recover from Anatolia. http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwalexius.htm http://www.wideopendoors.net/middleages_original/People/Comnenus.html This site also gives a lot of information about Alexius during his reign.
I was wondering about the specific difference between each crusades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
Wikipedia does a really good job of explaining each difference. Most of the time it was someone different conquering an important city to Christiantiy (namely Jerusalem).
I decided to do a brief overview of medieval paganism.
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/pagans/
Found this really great link with a summary of various aspects of medieval religious practice. What I found particularly interesting was this page (from the site above): http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/pagans/xian%20beliefs.htm
Which talks a bit about how Christian and Pagan ideology meshed over time.
The reading mentions that silver coins began to be used in the 9th and 10th centuries. I found a picture of one of these coins. http://www.etribes.com/sites/etribes.com/files/images/11_obv.thumbnail.jpg It also mentioned that the Truce of God was popularized and led to the Crusades. I found that the Truce of God was when warfare was suspended during certain days of the week and during church festivities and lent. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037149/Truce-of-God Lastly, it mentioned that pilgrims went to Antioch on their pilgrimages. I found a map on Antioch. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=64837&rendTypeId=4
I am interested in finding out who was it that launched the crusades and where the idea came from. Was there a back-handed reason behind it or was it really a battle in the name of God?
According to "Randy G" of the UK, the reason behind the Crusades is that the Muslims were being offensive and trying to conquer Europe. He says that "Islam was born in war and grew that way," and that Europe was being defensive. I'm not sure how much I agree with this but I would have to look at other sites.
We saw that Pericles in Greece and his great walls he built around Athens. The reading says that some lords/cities did the same thing during the time of the Crusades. Did this also end in disaster for them during the plague or did it end better for them?
As it turns out, the Plague hit London and Florence, one of the cities named that built new walls, the hardest. It wiped out almost 60% of Florence's population. But this may have been atributied to the fact that Florence was a major trading city and ships were constantly coming in and out.
On Page 5 of the document, it discusses Eleanor of Aquitaine. It said that she married first King Louis VII of France but later remarried to Henry of Anjou. They had some sons, and I wanted to look a little more into Richard I (otherwise known as Richard the Lion Heart).
Richard at first was trying to revolt against Henry with his two older brothers. The revolts of his brothers were put down and Eleanor was even imprisoned by Henry at one point. Richard raised lots of money for this crusade. Later, he and Philip II together went on the Third Crusade, actually fearing the others' power. He was somewhat successful in putting down his Muslim counterpart, Saladin. However, the Third Crusade was deemed a failure after making a treaty which still left Jerusalem in the hands of Muslims. Side note: there was some anti-Semitic violence during his reign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_the_Lion_Heart
I was interested in the technology and how it has changed. I also thought it was interesting that some of the things they developed are still used to this day but are now more complex and more fit for this time. For example the horse collars, they used them for the exact same things we use them for, which is plow horses. a link to a picture is right here. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Noe_horse_collar.jpg
How did the people in Venice get so many trading materials? How did they trade? I was not sure what the Truce of God was, so I googled it and found this website that helped described it more: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/t-of-god.html.
I was interested in learning more about the role of horses in the Middle Ages. The reading talked a bit about the horse collar and harnesses that were used for plowing. An interesting fact I found out was that the typical image of a knight on a huge war horse isn't exactly true- the horses were sturdy but not too tall to hinder mounting during battle. Here's a couple good webpages that talks about medieval horses and tack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_the_Middle_Ages http://mysite.verizon.net/mmaidens/medieval.html
I know that the Crusades were started because of the Muslims occupying Jerusalem. Was this all, or was there something that the Muslims did to spark the crusades? If there were not, why did the Europeans suddenly declare war against the Muslims?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
It says on wikipedia that the Umayyad Caliphate was rapidly expanding, and its territory covered much land, including jerusalem. The joining of the church and state in medieval Europe caused many to have feelings that a Holy War against the Muslims was acceptable.
I was interested to learn that the period of technological advancement before the Crusades heralded the return of coinage to Europe. I found some images and information about Middle Age coins: http://www.bnb.be/NR/rdonlyres/13E32A08-D7D4-4703-B23A-A295B839CE4D/0/islam2.gif Carolingian silver penny http://www.magyariszlam.hu/kepek/2.gif Muslim coins Wikipedia also has an article on the history of the English penny. It doesn't go up to the Crusades, but it was interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_penny_%28c._600-1066%29
Wondering about the Battle of Mazikert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert Modern Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazgirt
Map of Malazgirt http://www.mapofturkey.info/i/dt/17.4.jpg
More about Eleanor of Aquitaine http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine2.html Time line of her life http://robertfripp.ca/index.cfm?Fuseaction=ArticleDisplay&ArticleID=483&SectionID=152 Total had 10 Children - two with Louis VII - Eight with Henry II Died and is buried in Fontevraud Abbey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontevraud_Abbey
In the reading, it mentioned that Pope Urban told Christians to go to the Holy land to fight Muslims at the Council of Clermont. I was wondering about this, so I did some more research on the Council of Clermont. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Clermont The Council of Clermont was a council in November hosted by the Pope. He invited almost 300 Christian Priests from France to discuss a request by the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus. They spoke of many things, but near the end of the Council Urban declared “bellum sacrum” against the Muslims.
I am sorry that I did not post last night, I was doing my homework when I fell asleep at my computer (no joke). I ended up not doing hardly any homework last night homework last night. So here is my post.
I was confused about what the truce of god was. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037149/Truce-of-God
This link really explains the Truce of God well. It explains that it was an attempt by the catholic church to pacify all of the violence and war during certain times of the week. Such as Saturday through Monday.
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I was interested in Elanor of Aquitaine since she is described as one of the most powerful women during the High Middle Ages. I wanted to know about her children and family life. She had two daughters with King Louis VII and 8 other children (6 sons, 2 daughters) with Knig Henry II. King Henry was not a faithful husband. He had children with many other women while married to Elanor.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
In the reading, it mentioned that despite the differences between the Orthodox and Roman Churches, Alexius Comnenus (Byzantine Emperor) asked the Pope to help him confront the Muslims . I wanted to learn more about who Alexius was and what some of the things he did as emperor were.
I found this great site which speaks more about Alexius as an emperor and some of the things he did for the Byzantine Empire. Alexius made the first crusade after finishing a treaty with the Turks and then asking Pope Urban the second to help him recover from Anatolia. http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwalexius.htm
http://www.wideopendoors.net/middleages_original/People/Comnenus.html This site also gives a lot of information about Alexius during his reign.
I was not exactly sure on what the council of clermont was, so I decided to look into that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Clermont
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-5vers.html
these sources helped me understand it
I was wondering about the specific difference between each crusades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
Wikipedia does a really good job of explaining each difference. Most of the time it was someone different conquering an important city to Christiantiy (namely Jerusalem).
I decided to do a brief overview of medieval paganism.
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/pagans/
Found this really great link with a summary of various aspects of medieval religious practice. What I found particularly interesting was this page (from the site above): http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/pagans/xian%20beliefs.htm
Which talks a bit about how Christian and Pagan ideology meshed over time.
The reading mentions that silver coins began to be used in the 9th and 10th centuries. I found a picture of one of these coins.
http://www.etribes.com/sites/etribes.com/files/images/11_obv.thumbnail.jpg
It also mentioned that the Truce of God was popularized and led to the Crusades. I found that the Truce of God was when warfare was suspended during certain days of the week and during church festivities and lent. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037149/Truce-of-God
Lastly, it mentioned that pilgrims went to Antioch on their pilgrimages. I found a map on Antioch. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=64837&rendTypeId=4
I am interested in finding out who was it that launched the crusades and where the idea came from. Was there a back-handed reason behind it or was it really a battle in the name of God?
According to "Randy G" of the UK, the reason behind the Crusades is that the Muslims were being offensive and trying to conquer Europe. He says that "Islam was born in war and grew that way," and that Europe was being defensive. I'm not sure how much I agree with this but I would have to look at other sites.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070509134657AAvZKeW
We saw that Pericles in Greece and his great walls he built around Athens. The reading says that some lords/cities did the same thing during the time of the Crusades. Did this also end in disaster for them during the plague or did it end better for them?
As it turns out, the Plague hit London and Florence, one of the cities named that built new walls, the hardest. It wiped out almost 60% of Florence's population. But this may have been atributied to the fact that Florence was a major trading city and ships were constantly coming in and out.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~t4hearst/MDVL%20145%20Project.htm
On Page 5 of the document, it discusses Eleanor of Aquitaine. It said that she married first King Louis VII of France but later remarried to Henry of Anjou. They had some sons, and I wanted to look a little more into Richard I (otherwise known as Richard the Lion Heart).
Richard at first was trying to revolt against Henry with his two older brothers. The revolts of his brothers were put down and Eleanor was even imprisoned by Henry at one point. Richard raised lots of money for this crusade. Later, he and Philip II together went on the Third Crusade, actually fearing the others' power. He was somewhat successful in putting down his Muslim counterpart, Saladin. However, the Third Crusade was deemed a failure after making a treaty which still left Jerusalem in the hands of Muslims. Side note: there was some anti-Semitic violence during his reign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_the_Lion_Heart
I was interested in the technology and how it has changed. I also thought it was interesting that some of the things they developed are still used to this day but are now more complex and more fit for this time. For example the horse collars, they used them for the exact same things we use them for, which is plow horses. a link to a picture is right here.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Noe_horse_collar.jpg
How did the people in Venice get so many trading materials? How did they trade? I was not sure what the Truce of God was, so I googled it and found this website that helped described it more: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/t-of-god.html.
I was interested in learning more about the role of horses in the Middle Ages. The reading talked a bit about the horse collar and harnesses that were used for plowing. An interesting fact I found out was that the typical image of a knight on a huge war horse isn't exactly true- the horses were sturdy but not too tall to hinder mounting during battle. Here's a couple good webpages that talks about medieval horses and tack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_the_Middle_Ages
http://mysite.verizon.net/mmaidens/medieval.html
I know that the Crusades were started because of the Muslims occupying Jerusalem. Was this all, or was there something that the Muslims did to spark the crusades? If there were not, why did the Europeans suddenly declare war against the Muslims?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
It says on wikipedia that the Umayyad Caliphate was rapidly expanding, and its territory covered much land, including jerusalem. The joining of the church and state in medieval Europe caused many to have feelings that a Holy War against the Muslims was acceptable.
I was interested to learn that the period of technological advancement before the Crusades heralded the return of coinage to Europe. I found some images and information about Middle Age coins:
http://www.bnb.be/NR/rdonlyres/13E32A08-D7D4-4703-B23A-A295B839CE4D/0/islam2.gif
Carolingian silver penny
http://www.magyariszlam.hu/kepek/2.gif
Muslim coins
Wikipedia also has an article on the history of the English penny. It doesn't go up to the Crusades, but it was interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_penny_%28c._600-1066%29
Wondering about the Battle of Mazikert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert
Modern Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazgirt
Map of Malazgirt
http://www.mapofturkey.info/i/dt/17.4.jpg
More about Eleanor of Aquitaine
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine2.html
Time line of her life
http://robertfripp.ca/index.cfm?Fuseaction=ArticleDisplay&ArticleID=483&SectionID=152
Total had 10 Children - two with Louis VII
- Eight with Henry II
Died and is buried in Fontevraud Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontevraud_Abbey
I was interested in the history of Pisa, and and I found this site:
http://touritaly.org/tours/Tuscany/Pisa/HistoryOfPisa.htm
It has descriptions of the important events in Pisa from when it was a Roman colony Pisae, 180 years before Christ.
http://www.medievalcrusades.com/
on this website i learned about the church and the relation to the crusades.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cru1.htm
from this linked i learned about the when certain events concerning the crusades occurred.
SORRY I WAS LATTEEE!!!!!!!
In the reading, it mentioned that Pope Urban told Christians to go to the Holy land to fight Muslims at the Council of Clermont. I was wondering about this, so I did some more research on the Council of Clermont.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Clermont
The Council of Clermont was a council in November hosted by the Pope. He invited almost 300 Christian Priests from France to discuss a request by the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus. They spoke of many things, but near the end of the Council Urban declared “bellum sacrum” against the Muslims.
I am sorry that I did not post last night, I was doing my homework when I fell asleep at my computer (no joke). I ended up not doing hardly any homework last night homework last night. So here is my post.
I was confused about what the truce of god was. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037149/Truce-of-God
This link really explains the Truce of God well. It explains that it was an attempt by the catholic church to pacify all of the violence and war during certain times of the week. Such as Saturday through Monday.
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