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CHAPTER 8
Medieval Empires and Borderlands:
The Latin West
The West
Encounters and Transformations
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
I. The Birth of Latin Christendom
II. The Carolingians
III. Invasions and Recovery
IV. The West in the East: the Crusades
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
I. The Birth of Latin Christendom
(A. Germanic Kingdoms)
A. Germanic Kingdoms
Anglo-Saxon England
Angles, Saxons
5th century
coins disappear
cities shrink
Christianity
Franks
into Gaul, late 3d century
cultural blend
Salians, 5th century
Childeric (c.460-481)
Clovis (481-511)
Clotild, wife
Christian
Conversion
507, Vouillé
defeats Alaric II
534, Burgunians
536, Provence
Charles Martel (719-741)
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
I. The Birth of Latin Christendom
A. Germanic Kingdoms
Visigoths
Arians
by 600, rule Iberia
711, conquered by Muslims
Lombards
control Italy, 568-774
Langobardi
Alboin (c.565-572)
751, Aistulf defeats Exarchate of
Ravenna
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
II. The Carolingians
Pepin the Short
deposes Merovingian king, 751
A. Charlemagne, 768-814
Conquests
Coronation
Leo II (795-816)
Dec. 25, 800
Administration
centralized
capitularies
Renaissance
Aachen
palace school
Alcuin of York (c.732-804)
Einhard (c.770-840)
Life of Charlemagne (830-833)
Latin
miniscule
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
II. The Carolingians
B. The Division of Western Europe
Louis I (814-840)
succeeds Charlemagne
843, Treaty of Verdun
sons divide empire
Charles the Bald (d.877)
Lothair (d.855)
Louis the German (d.876)
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
III. Invasions and Recovery
A. The Polytheist Invaders
Magyars (Hungarians)
cross Danube by 896
898-920, Po valley
955, stopped by Otto I
Árpád (d.907)
dynasty
Stephen I (997-1038)
Vikings
793, Lindisfarne
843, winter over
Britain
Danish, Norse
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
III. Invasions and Recovery
B. Rulers
Lords and vassals
personal bond
C. After the Carolingians
East Francia
Dukes of Saxony
Otto I the Great (936-973)
Liutprand of Cremona (c.920-c.972)
D. Conversions
Slavs
Scandinavia
Poland
Prince Mieszko (c.960-992)
converts, 966
Donation of Poland, c.991
West Francia
Hugh Capet (987-996)
Robert II, the Pious (996-1031)
Anglo-Saxon England
Alfred the Great (871-899)
1066, Norman Conquest
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
IV. The West in the East: the Crusades
1095, Clermont
Urban II (1088-1099)
Peter the Hermit (c.1050-1115)
A. Origins of the Idea
1071, Manzikert
Alexius Comnenus
B. Crusading Warfare
First Crusade, 1095-1099
1144, Edessa
Second Crusade, 1147-1149
1187, Salahadin retakes Jerusalem
Third Crusade (1189-1192)
Fourth Crusade
sack of Constantinople
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Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
IV. The West in the East: the Crusades
B. Crusading Warfare
First Crusade, 1095-1099
1144, Edessa
Second Crusade, 1147-1149
1187, Salahadin retakes Jerusalem
Third Crusade (1189-1192)
Fourth Crusade
sack of Constantinople
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