THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO
Portal 2: Feudal society and Romanesque art.
Vocabulary
FEUDALISM: medieval economic system of transition between the slavery system and the mercantilism in which the land was divided in parcels, properties or fiefs; they were leased by the feudal landlords to the peasants so that they farm them in exchange for a supposed protection.
TITHE: a compulsory ecclesiastical tithe. One tenth of the peasant’s harvest or animal husbandry was collected by the Catholic Church in Spain and its empire in the Middle Ages.
FRESCO: it is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the pigment.
TEMPLARS: knights from the military Order of the Temple that tried to combine the religious and the noble ideals. They were simultaneously monks and soldiers, who fought in Europe and the Holy Land. They became so powerful that the King Philip IV of France and the Pope Clement V disbanded the order at the beginning of the 14th century (1312).
Feudalism
Feudal system during the Middle Ages
Serfs and manorialism
Peasants and nobles
The clergy and the crusades
Chivalry in the Middle Ages
The Crusades in 5 Minutes
Kingdom Of Heaven - Trailer
Romanesque art
Assassin's Creed - Templar Trailer
Portal 3: Medieval cities and Gothic art.
Vocabulary
BOURGEOISIE: French term used in the Middle Ages to describe the group of craftsmen, artisans and merchants, whose wealth accumulation came from their businesses in the city and that allowed them to remove the nobles from power.
GUILDS: economic associations of European origin, that grouped the craftsmen of a same office, which they appeared in the medieval cities and they extended until aims of the Modern Age, when they were abolished.
THE WESTERN SCHISM: it was a period of the Roman Catholic Church history between the 14th and the 15th centuries, when several Popes disputed their religious authority and Clement V transferred the pontifical headquarters from Rome to Avignon (France).
The growth of cities
The rise of the monarchies
The crisis of the Late Middle Ages
The Black Death
The crisis of the Late Middle Ages
Gothic art
