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10 Things You May Not Know About William the Conqueror - HISTORY Lists - 0 views

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William the Conqueror

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  • 1. He was of Viking extraction
  • 2. He had reason to hate his original name.
  • 3. His future bride wanted nothing to do with him at first.
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  • 4. He couldn’t bear any disrespect toward his mother.
  • 5. He made England speak Franglais
  • 6. His jester was the first casualty of the Battle of Hastings
  • 7. He was touchy about his weight
  • 8. His body exploded at his funeral
  • 9. He is an ancestor of millions of people.
  • 10. He’s responsible for scores of British Wills.
  • John Woodbridge on 17 Apr 13
     
    This is a list of facts that give a deeper sense of who William was as a person and how these might have impacted his daily decisions.
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Possible Tomb of Chinese Tyrant Uncovered - 0 views

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Ancient China

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  • Emperor Yang, also known as Yang Guang, is remembered as a fearsome and decadent tyrant. During his rule from 606 until his death at the hands of rebels in 618, he forced millions of laborers to take part in ambitious construction projects, such as building royal palaces,  completing of the Grand Canal and reconstructing of the Great Wall. Emperor Yang also launched costly military campaigns, including a failed conquest of Goguryeo, an ancient kingdom of Korea, which eventually led to the collapse of the Sui Dynasty.
  • Grave robbers seem to have looted the tomb in the 1,500 years since the emperor's death
  • inside the tomb, including a jade belt with gold details
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  • An army of life-size clay warriors famously guards the city-sized tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 B.C. The main burial chamber of Qin Shi Huang has yet to be excavated, but according to legend, it has rivers of mercury and a ceiling encrusted with gems. Archaeologists recently found the emperor's palace complex at the site near the city of Xi'an.
  • John Woodbridge on 17 Apr 13
     
    Description of burial practices of Chinese emperors
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Medieval Knight's Tomb Found Beneath Parking Lot - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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Quest2

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  • Archaeologists who were on hand during the construction of a new building in Edinburgh uncovered a carved sandstone slab, decorated with markers of nobility — a Calvary cross and a sword
  • Scientists plan to analyze the bones and teeth to learn more about this possible knight or nobleman
  • archaeologists have already dated the gravestone to the thirteenth century
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  • Builders at the site expected they would find historic objects during construction. Before it became a parking lot (coincidentally, once used by the University of Edinburgh's archaeology department), the site housed the 17th-century Royal High School, the 16th-century Old High School, and the 13th-century Blackfriars Monastery, researchers said. Archaeologists also apparently uncovered some medieval remains of the monastery, which had been destroyed and somewhat lost since the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
  • John Woodbridge on 15 Mar 13
     
    Story about an archeological find in Scotland
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The Renaissance - 0 views

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Quest10

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  • new enthusiasm for classical literature, learning, and art which sprang up in Italy towards the close of the Middle Ages, and which during the course of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries gave a new culture to Europe.
  • Renaissance was essentially an intellectual movement
  • secular, inquiring, self-reliant spirit which characterized the life and culture of classical antiquity
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  • vernacular literatures.
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      John Woodbridge on 12 Mar 13
       
      Vernacular means locally spoken language. Literature the stories that are written so this whole phrase means stories written in the local language about local topics.
  • The atmosphere of these bustling, trafficking cities called into existence a practical commercial spirit, a many-sided, independent, secular life which in many respects was directly opposed to medieval teachings and ideals.
  • So far-reaching and transforming was the influence of the old world of culture upon the nations of Western Europe that the Renaissance, viewed as the transition from the mediaeval to the modern age, may properly be regarded as beginning with its discovery, or rediscovery, and the appropriation of its riches by the Italian scholars.
  • It was a political, intellectual, and artistic life like that of the cities of ancient Greece.
  • Florence, for example, became a second Athens
  • Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance was the fact that in Italy the break between the old and the new civilization was not so complete as it was in the other countries of Western Europe.
  • Italians were closer in language and in blood to the old Romans than were the other new-forming nations
  • direct descendants and heirs of the old conquerors of the world
  • first task of the Italian scholars the recovery and appropriation of the culture of antiquity.
  • existence in the peninsula of so many monuments of the civilization and the grandeur of ancient Rome
  • -a recovery and appropriation by the Italians of the long-neglected heritage of Graeco-Roman civilization.
  • The movement here consisted of two distinct yet closely related phases, namely, the revival of classical literature and learning, and the revival of classical art
  • intellectual and literary phase of the movement
  • "Humanism,
  • study of the classics, the literae humaniores, or the "more human letters," in opposition to the diviner letters, that is, theology, which made up the old education.
  • Petrarch, the First of the Humanists.-- [Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374
  • He was the first scholar of the mediaeval time who fully realized and appreciated the supreme excellence and beauty of the classical literature and its value as a means of culture.
  • He could not read Greek, yet he gathered Greek as well as Latin manuscripts
  • During all the mediaeval centuries, until the dawn of the intellectual revival, the ruins of Rome were merely a quarry. The monuments of the Caesars were torn down for building material, the sculptured marbles were burned into lime for mortar.
  • John Woodbridge on 12 Mar 13
     
    Effects of the Renaissance on development of Western culture
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Why does the pope wear red shoes? A Yahoo News Q&A on choosing a new pontiff | The Look... - 0 views

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Quest 5- Religion

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    Interesting facts about traditions followed by the Pope.
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The Knights Templar - Heroes of Europe - YouTube - 0 views

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Quest 5 and 8

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    Tells about the purpose of the knights in protecting the pilgrims on their journey to the Holy Land
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Why did people go on pilgrimages in the Middle Ages? | The Free Resource for Kids - 0 views

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Quest 5 Religion

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  • For most people, all that sustained them was a sense of hope and belief in a better world to come with salvation in Jesus Christ.
  • undertaking a long and arduous pilgrimage was a way for people to ask God to perform a miracle on their behalf
  • demonstrate their repentance for any sins they might have committed
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  • Going on a pilgrimage was also the only way a poor person could see some of the world
  • Pilgrimage sites in Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem were important landmarks of places where significant events occurred in the Christian narrative. There were many holy places throughout Europe for those who could only make shorter pilgrimages.
  • Christian authorities either destroyed these sites or replaced them with Christian significance.
  • they sanctified the former places of idol worship and encouraged the common people to continue making pilgrimages to these places
  • The masses often worshipped pagan idols and had many shrines and sacred places which were associated with those idols
  • Crusaders returning from the Holy Land brought back many relics that were placed in churches throughout Europe.
  • John Woodbridge on 12 Feb 13
     
    describes why people went on pilgrimages, where they went, and how the church promoted the idea of pilgrimage
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Medieval beliefs about sin and forgiveness » English Lit Resources from Cross... - 1 views

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Quest 5 Religion

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  • Sin, in Christian teaching, consists of disobedience to the known will of God
  • Medieval Church inherited and taught the doctrine of original sin, the belief that all human beings share in collective guilt as a result of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the Fall of Humankind, together with an ongoing predisposition to disobey God
  • needed to be cleansed through baptism
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  • taking part in this, believers symbolically shared in the victory paid for – and won by - Christ over the power of sin (known as the atonement).
  • Celebrating mass
  • Everyone
  • sermons that people learnt Bible
  • few laypeople had direct access to the text of the Bible.
  • Sermons had several functions:
  • The idea of purgatory was based on the obvious fact that most people are neither extremely good nor extremely evil.
  • To educate people about the Christian faith and the Church’s rituals and practices To make known the contents of the Bible, the Church’s interpretations of the Bible, and also the lives of saints To help people understand the system of confession and to prepare for their confession to their parish priest in a careful way To explain about sin and virtues.
  • Venial sins were relatively small faults and shortcomings. The individual could confess these privately to God Mortal, or ‘deadly’, sins were wrong acts committed consciously and deliberately. They therefore placed the soul in serious danger and the Church taught that, in normal circumstances, they could only be forgiven through the sacrament of penance and by confession to a priest.
  • believed that being too absorbed in the life of the body and material things was bad for the soul.
  • The simple food monks and nuns were supposed to keep to The regular fasting periods that all Christians observed during the Church year.
  • repentance means the person wants to turn away from undertaking wrong behaviour and actively decides to do so henceforward.
  • The priest would hear the confession and talk to the penitent to ascertain that they truly repented and resolved to do better in future. The priest then pronounced absolution, declaring that Christ forgave the sins of the truly repentant.
  • Penance  This means an action which demonstrates that someone has repented of their sins. The priest might order a penitent, for example, to do one of the following for a period: Go on pilgrimage Fast (abstain from food) Donate alms to the Church or the poor.
  • knowledge of the Christian faith came, above all, from preaching and teaching, week by week from parish priests.
  • people,
  • would not go straight to heaven after death either. Instead, they would spend a period in the spiritual state of purgatory where they could ‘pay for’ / atone for sins committed on earth
  • It was believed that, whilst still alive, people could undertake deeds that would speed either themselves (in the future) or a dead friend or relative through this process
  • John Woodbridge on 12 Feb 13
     
    Discussion of sin, celebration of mass, importance of a sermon, confession, repentance, confession, penance, and purgatory
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God In America: People: The Roman Catholic Church in Medieval Europe | PBS - 0 views

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quest 5 Religion

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      John Woodbridge on 12 Feb 13
       
      Salvation means admittance to heaven.
  • It was the duty of every political authority -- king, queen, prince or city councilman -- to support, sustain and nurture the church.
  • strong church encouraged social stability and political cohesion
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  • Jesus of Nazareth founded the church to administer the sacraments, rituals that contain the mystery of grace and the promise of salvation. Salvation comes only through the church; individuals cannot find salvation outside the institution.
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Reading Guide: Sacraments of the Church - 0 views

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Quest 5 Religion

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  • eucharist
  • Lord himself instituted this sacrament with wine mixed with water
  • .since it is written that both blood and water flowed from Christ's side
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  • union of Christian people with Christ, for water signifies 'people,' and... 'in the wine is manifested the blood of Christ'
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    describes the eucharist
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project - 0 views

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Quest 5- Religion

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  • main focus was on Baptism
  • The Latin word
  • sacramentum - which meant "oath"
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  • establishing of a "new covenant" between a human being an God
  • In Greek Christianity these various Christian rites were called "mysteries" [i.e. things to be hidden from unbelievers]
  • baptism
  • confirmation which bishops confer by the laying on of hands while they anoint the reborn
  • penance, the Eucharist, the sacrament of order, matrimony and extreme unction
  • Eucharis
  • the bread is truly transubstantiated into the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the wine into His blood
  • matrimony, she holds that neither is a man allowed to have several wives at the same time nor a woman several husbands
  • baptism, confirmation, the mass, penance, extreme unction, ordination, and matrimony
  • John Woodbridge on 12 Feb 13
     
    discussion of sacraments
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Art Style of the Medieval Period - YouTube - 0 views

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Quest 6- Art

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    No talking, all subtitles that are very well written and set to one of my favorite songs, "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel
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TICE Art 1010: Medieval and Byzantine Art.mp4 - YouTube - 0 views

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Quest 6- Art and Iconoclasm

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    Best part starts at 2:00 mark. The first 2 minutes describe the fall of Rome and the creation of Western and Eastern Empires. The rest talks about Iconoclasm and new artistic techniques.
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Medieval Life: Religion Medicine And Women - YouTube - 0 views

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Quest 5- Getting into heaven

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    Start watching at 1:40 mark
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Medieval Realms 02 07 Why become a nun or monk - YouTube - 0 views

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Quest 5- Becoming a monk or nun

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    two and a half minutes describes why a woman became a nun
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Medieval cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Quest 4- Food of the Middle Ages

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      John Woodbridge on 04 Feb 13
       
      Good information about fasting during religious festivals
  • Nobles dined on fresh game seasoned with exotic spices, and displayed refined table manners; rough laborers could make do with coarse barley bread, salt pork and beans and were not expected to display etiquette.
  • diet of the upper classes was considered to be as much a requirement of their refined physical constitution as a sign of economic reality. The digestive system of a lord was held to be more discriminating than that of his rustic subordinates and demanded finer foods.[7]
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  • Europe there were typically two meals a day: dinner at mid-day and a lighter supper in the evening
  • John Woodbridge on 04 Feb 13
     
    describes what type of typical diet of every social class from peasants to kings
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In medieval times what was the role of the Cardinals - 0 views

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      John Woodbridge on 31 Jan 13
       
      So Cardinals were high ranking clergy with churches in and around Rome until the 12th century when priests from outside of Rome could become Cardinals.
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Dunkeld Medieval Bishops. - 0 views

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      John Woodbridge on 30 Jan 13
       
      It could be expensive to be a high ranking member of the clergy.
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The Middle Ages | Feudalism - 2 views

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MiddleAGes Nuns Monks Priest

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      John Woodbridge on 30 Jan 13
       
      This shows that there were more than one type of monk or nun.
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Middle Ages for Kids - Abbots, Bishops, Cardinals, Pope - 0 views

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      John Woodbridge on 30 Jan 13
       
      This is a good description of how the high clergy fit into feudal system.
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