Jillian Kurzmann's Blog 5/11/18

Jillian Kurzmann
5/11/18
Honors Western Civilization

Today in class, we took notes on a powerpoint.
After Rome 500-700

  • Germanic Kingdoms of Western Europe.
    • The Germanic Barbarians
      • Barbarian warlords and their families who assimilated into Roman culture became the "nobles" or aristocrats of medieval Europe.
      • Germanic tribes who ruled former Roman lands sought to conquer and assimilate other barbarian peoples who lived beyond the frontiers and were still pagans.
  • Christendom- christianity and kingdom combination
  • More on Germanic Kingdoms 
    • The Angles and the Saxons (from Denmark and north-western Germany) invaded Britain and assimilated the native Britons.
    • Most of the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity in the seventh century.
    • The most powerful Germanic tribe was the Franks.
    • But the real power lay with the "mayors of the palace" who were royal officials and nobles themselves.
  • Meanwhile, back in the Eastern Empire.
    • From "Eastern Empire" to "Byzantium".
      • The Eastern Roman Empire continued on while the west was now divided up by the barbarian tribes.
      • When the emperor Justinian came to power in 527, he decided to reunite the entire Roman Empire by re-conquering the western territories.
      • Justinian succeeded for a time, but the land he retook was soon conquered by the new barbarian tribes and a massive plague depopulated much of the west.
  • It's a Christian Empire now.
    • Greek Byzantine emperors saw themselves as Roman emperors and the heads of the Christian Church.
    • Byzantines preserved Greco-Roman art, architecture, philosophy, and writing despite much of it being non-Christian.
    • Justinian built the massive domed Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") in Constantinople, considered to be the glorious church on earth at the time.
  • Third version finished in 537, the cathedral of Hagia Sophia, Justinian's cathedral was later a mosque and is now a museum. Using knowledge of the geometry of curves, it has a dome supported by arches high in the air that remained a model for both church builders and mosque-builders for more than a thousand years.


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