Middle+Ages+Artifacts


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 * In this engraving three peasants are conversing on their way to a trade fair. Going to a fair they could be vendors or buyers. Increased trade caused; new inventions, the rise of towns, a new money economy, which all changed midevil society. Some people went a great distance to get to the fairs, routes could go along seas and rivers. || This picture is of half armor that was used for foot tournaments, or combat on foot. Armors like this were made for patrons in the noble rank. Most wealthy patrons could afford this armor and then also payed to have it embellished. Like in this picture, etching in to the steel to create patterns was used. The artist, Pompeo della Cesa, was a greatly honored armorer, and his designs were found on about 40 still surviving suits. ||


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 * This is an illistration of the Battle of Slays during the Hundred Years' War in 1340. This was an important battle between France and England in which King Edward won, and England became in control of the English Channel. In this image the French and English are locking ships during the battle, with many people crowded in the middle. It appears that they are fighting, with others shooting bows and arrows on the side. In the Hundred Years' War France there were four phases, with fewer than twenty major battles. || This is an illistration of the Council of Constance, a gathering of theologians and scholars trying to relsove the schism. The Great Schism occurred because rival popes in the Catholic Church both competed for papal authority. The popes excommunicated each other, all going while Europe was already hit with war and plague. The Council of Constance finally resolved the Great Schism, although damage to the papacy remained. ||


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 * In this image Pope Urban II is at the Council of Clermont. He is proposing the First Crusade, which later happened when Urban preached that Christian knights help the Byzantine Empire agains the Seljuk Terks. The Crusades, or holy wars started in AD 1096 and continued into the 1400s, beginning when Christians went to recapture the Holy Land from Muslims. When Pope Urban called the First Crusade, it happened in two phases and resulted in conquered territory divided into four states. || This is an image of a Bubonic Plague vitctim being helped by a doctor. When the plague was going around doctors belived it was because of the smell. They held sweet-smelling sponges and bundles to their noses to help it from spreading. However, it was later found the cause was fleas infected from a bacteria in rats transmitting the desease to humans. During the Black Death there were three forms of the plague; Bubonic plague, Pneumonic plague, and Septicemic plague, all with different symptoms. This plague changed history, about 25 million people died in Europe, and a great economic inflation. ||