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    would have a lasting impact upon the Medieval World particularly in manners of religion, science and medicine, art, and the increased use of common and local vernaculars. These effects would alter the lives of many individuals and states of the Middle Ages, but also would be the roots of various political and social movements throughout Europe. One major area of intellectual life and culture that the Black Death brought upon Eastern and Western European life was on religion. For the sake of brevity

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    government have the final say in all matters? This debate was a popular question throughout the Renaissance and Reformation that lead many theologians to begin to question the Pope’s authority in the church and over kings. The Catholic Church in the Middle Ages was influencing nearly every area of life, causing certain monarchs and scholars to question the validity of the church and the Pope’s power. “Church problems and corruptions allowed scholars to challenge the absolute authority of the Roman Catholic

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    Life in the Middle Ages was very hard. There was no cell phones and television. There were no cars and grocery stores either. Everything that was done had to be done by hand. You rode a horse and made your clothes. You even had to grow your own food. The hardest part about it, though, was the fact that everything was sorted into a social class. You see a lot of this in movies such as A Knight’s Tale. In the movie, there’s a peasant named William Thatcher. He is the son of a poor man named John, who

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    The main concerns of during the Middle Ages were religion, God, and the Church. From 476 AD all the way to the 1400s, life was all about making it to the afterlife, and surviving the Black Death. Europe’s world revolved around the Catholic Church, but all it took was one era to alter it all, the Renaissance. The Church was slowly losing their power, and the people began to realize all of their abilities. Artists, such as Michelangelo began to focus in on the greatness of man, and all the beauty they

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    By the end of the Middle Ages, the world of human civilization was preparing to undergo massive changes in what would be considered normal living. The empires previous discussed in our lectures would begin to fall and previously shunned ideals were gaining widespread acceptance, such as common religious beliefs and practices. The borders that seem to keep the induvial of these societies protected or even trapped, would begin to expand in a way that will likely never occur again on our known history

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    profitability which leads to urbanization. Second, it lets countries exchange innovative ideas. Third, it brings people to wider world. The last paragraph will be recalling previous points and explaining how diversity affected the social issues during the Middle Ages. Cultural diversity brings benefits to business above all over the world. It develops country’s economic side and let people get to know diffused cultures. As business between different cultures come and go, the productivity and profitability improves

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    make the barren history out of the dark middle Ages. Then again, these attributes accomplish more than characterize the lifestyle of a medieval public opinion. Dismissed expressions, absence of training and adulterating forces portray a human advancement ousted by a period of obscurity. These dismal dark ages are incited by quickly spreading sickness, forcing foes, and extortionate forces. By seeing how these scourges, intrusions, and defilements shape a dull age, the medieval times might be all the

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    The focus of this essay is to determine, the ways in which the Divine was used as a generating concept in the design of Gothic cathedrals and churches in the Middle Ages. How did the resulting design goals generate new structural technologies to support a Gothic cathedral, and how were they expressed in the building’s interior? In 1962, Paul Frankl published a basic history about the Gothic style, however now it has been declared that the Gothic style was initially originated in the year 1130’s

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    time for re-awakening of educated thinking and empowering that humans are able to govern one’s life and future rather than allowing church to dictate their path in life. Yet Petrarch the father of humanism began the movement outside of Italy. The Middle Ages had always had a strong humanist tradition of interest in the Latin classics. Based on a deep and historicizing interest in the classical past, this set of interest came to be known as the Italian Renaissance humanism. It gave the classical past

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    “Feudalism was a political and economic system and culture in Europe during the Middle Ages” (Sheldon) In 911 AD, Charles the simple, king of France, granted Rollo, head of a Viking army, a part of French territory known as Northmen’s Land or Normandy. Rollo then swore a pledge of loyalty to the king (“Feudalism in Europe” 360). 850 to 950 AD was the worst time of invader’s attacks. Charles and Rollo made similar agreements to make system of government called feudalism. It was also based on rights

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