details about the importance of Charlemagne to the Middle Ages” and Why is it that the middle Ages are also called the Dark Ages? Readings

Essays

For Monday January 15, 2015

5 page essay on “giving details about the importance of Charlemagne to the Middle Ages”

Double-spaced, Times New Roman 12, with normal margins.

Readings

Feudal life

http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/feudal.html

http://www.medieval-life.net/city_life.htm

The Treaty of Verdun, Louis the Pious

http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/flouisphis.htm

The Frankish kingdom

http://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/1663

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?gtrack=pthc&ParagraphID=ebx (Pepin)

http://www.themiddleages.net/people/charlemagne.html

The Visigoths

http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/WestEurope/Visigoths.html

Five page essay, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12, with normal margins

Why is it that the middle Ages are also called the Dark Ages?

Readings

The Great Schism

http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-great-schism.htm

http://www.mrdowling.com/703middleages.html

The Religious Crusades

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/ataglance/glance.shtml

http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/domerock.htm

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Saladin

The First Crusade 1096-1099

http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-first-crusade.htm

The Second Crusade 1147-1149

The Third Crusade 1189-1192

 The Fourth Crusade 1202-1204

The Fifth Crusade 1217-1221

The Sixth Crusade 1228-1229

The Seventh Crusade 1248-1254

http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/crusades/

The Eighth Crusade 1270

http://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/eighth-crusade

Magna Carta

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/magna_01.shtml

Black Death

http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/westciv/plague/

The Hundred Years' War

http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/hundred_years_war.html

Joan of Arc

http://www.lordsandladies.org/joan-of-arc.htm