aim: to what extent did classical rome have an influence on europe during the middle ages?
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Aim: to what extent did Classical Rome
have an influence on Europe during the
Middle Ages?
CarthageGreece
Rome
Germanic Invaders Eastern
Roman Empire aka
the Byzantine Empire
Islamic Caliphate
UmayyadEmirate
Abbassid Emirate
CarolingianEmpire
VikingsKievan Rus
Vikings
Turks
MONGOLS
• The quick’ish review is over.
• Now onto the image analysis.
• You are going to look at images of four “barbarian” kings.
What religion did
Charlemagne adhere to?
(9th Century
CE / AD)
How about…?
… Otto the Great of
Germany?
(936 – 973AD)
And…
Great, great, great, grandson of Charlemagne
and great, great, great, great grandfather
of Henry IV of Germany
Oleg (and Igor) of Kievan Rus (9th -10th Century AD)
Why are these three kings of “barbarian” peoples all good
examples of
cultural diffusion?
Their tribes / nations all converted to Christianity after migrating into lands influenced by the cultural remnants of the Roman Empire.
Aim: to what extent did Classical Rome
have an influence on Europe during the
Middle Ages?
395 CE
Orthodox
Christianity
Catholicism
(and
Protestantism after 1600CE)
Islam 711 until 1492
Islam
Islam
What is the connection between the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity? Look at location.
Now, to analyze
something new…..
Languages of the Roman Empire
• The two most widely spoken languages of the Roman empire were
• Latin and
• Greek• The Byzantines used Greek after the fall of
the Western Roman Empire.
Latin Alphabet
A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W X
Y Z
Established evidence.
Where are Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets used?
Cyrillic Alphabet
Used by Russian, Bulgarian, and several
other Slavic languages
Notice any similarities to any other alphabets?
Latin Alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Where are Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets used?
Gothic AlphabetDoes this alphabet look familiar?
Latin Alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Gothic Alphabet
Where are Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets used?
Can you name any modern languages that have evolved out of any of the languages spoken within
the Roman Empire?
Spanish
French
Romanian
ItalianPortuguese
(Modern) Greek
Galician
Catalan
• A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Language Map
Fin
Aim: to what extent is Gothic Architecture a reflection of Western
Roman influence?
Aim: To what extent did Classical Rome
have an influence on Europe during the
Middle Ages?
Aim: to what extent did Roman engineering have an impact on Medieval religious
architecture?
Eastern Rome
Eastern Roman Empire
aka the Byzantine Empire after
476CE.
Eastern Europe.
How about (Church) Architecture?
Hagia Sophia
St. Sophias in Novgorod, Russia.
St. Basils
in
Moscow
Western Rome
The Western Roman Empire
Think; Western Europe.
Romanesque Architecture
Gothic Architecture and
Engineering
Cologne Cathedral, Germany.
Gothic Architecture ►
• A flying buttress is a free-standing buttress attached to the main structure by an arch or a half-arch. It reinforces and stabilizes the walls of the entire structure allowing the builders to include larger windows.
• Flying ButtressIllustration from ArtToday.com
Canterbury Cathedral, England.
Roman Culture (East and or West) had an impact on the Middle Ages in the following
ways:
• Religion• Language and or • Alphabets and • Architecture• (Even more) Patriarchal and
Classist
Examples ?
• However, Western Europe, outside of Umayyad Spain, and Eastern Europe outside of the Byzantine Empire, did not generally benefit from Greek and Roman
(What is missing?)
• philosophy, art, literature and science
• until the latter Middle Ages, the dawn of the Renaissance.
Aim: To what extent did Classical Rome
have an influence on Europe during the
Middle Ages?
ByzantineEmpire
Islamic Caliphate
UmayyadEmirate
CarolingianEmpire
“Germany” Holy
Roman Empire
VikingsKievan Rus
Turks
Fin
“Roman and then Byzantine Empires” 5th Century CE / AD
RomeGermanic Invaders
Eastern Roman Empire / aka the
Byzantine Empire
Islamic Caliphate
Carolingian Empire
Seljuk Turks And
Ottoman Turks
MONGOLS
Vikings
Orthodox
Christianity
Catholicism
(and
Protestantism after 1600CE)
Islam 711 until 1492
Islam
Islam
What is the connection between the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity? Look at location.