THE HIGH & LATE MIDDLE AGES

ROYAL POWER IN ENGLAND

• royal family's power grows
• royals bring about new traditions
• the magna carta shaped government traditions

EVOLVING TRADITIONS

• as kings power grew new traditions were made
• these traditions were from fighting with nobles

MAGNA CARTA

• *two ideas*
• 1. nobles have cerain rights
• 2. the monarch must obey the laws

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE CHURCH

• pope crowned first emporer of rome
• united a patchwork of germanic states

CHURCH VS ROME

• both the pope and the emperor wanted more power
• some popes claimed the right to remove kings
• church eventually takes over
• height of power is the 1200s

EUROPEANS LOOK FORWARD

• europe began emerging from isolation
• other continents had already done so

CRUSADES

• wars for religion
• byzantines invaded by the muslims
• pope helps byzntines and emerges victorious

EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES

• left bitter legecy of religious hatred
• contact with muslims brought about new religions

LEARNING LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

• crusades gave an economic boost to europe
• everyone wanted an education
• poets and writer became prevelant

CRISIS

• LATE MIDDLE AGES
• bubonic plague
• kills most people in known history
• europe doesnt recover for 100 years

RESOURCES

• Prentice hall world history: the modern era