Summary: Medieval History P2

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  • 8 Economic takeoff and social change in Town and Court, c. 1000-1300

  • 8.1 The commercial revolution

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  • What attracted the Vikings, Magyar and Muslims raiders

    Wealth from the river valleys of Europe
  • Name 3 ways how a city can emerge and how were these towns called

    1. Some were planted by nobles 
    2. Developed outside the walls of monasteries
    3. Flourished around a castle or fortification  

    burgs, with their inhabitants burghers
  • 8.2 Urban society

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  • What was essential to the beginning of town establishment

    Immigration, especially women who had more opportunities.
  • Describe the communal movement

    Agitation for urban self-government, each urban charter had a commune which had its own local government, court, tax-collect system, customs
  • Name 2 things important for maintaining Urban charters

    Collective effort and collective responsibility
  • 8.2.1 Guilds and households

  • How was competition limited and quality preserved for goods

    Guilds established strict admission requirements and rules
  • 8.4 Feudal society

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  • Describe courtly love

    Idealizing women and placing them on pedestals from which they are only now descending
  • 8.5 The expansion of education

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  • What is the result of a vast expansion in education and increase of written documents

    Improved standards of living and increasing cultural complexity
  • How did power came to be justified and what is the result

    By documentation, this encouraged a more logical and systematic approach to every aspect of human experience
  • What is the advantage of university to the church

    Bureaucrats who were more efficient, trained and loyal

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