Middle+Ages+Artifacts


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 * [[image:616451w.jpg]] || This image is a painting of Charlemagne that was completed around the age of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was a support of education. One of these reasons could have been that he was illiterate. The city of Aachen was supposed to be a second home and Charlemagne set up a university in Aachen because many of the people there were illiterate. Education in medieval life is described as only men who could go to school because the policy against women was strictly enforced. Students at universities woke up at 5 a.m., went to class until 10 a.m., ate their first meal, went back to class until 5 p.m., ate a light dinner, and studied until it was time to go to sleep. Classes included arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.

Augustine of Hippo. N.d. //ABC-CLIO World History//. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. . ||  || The image to the right shows that the knights were warriors of the church because it was the church who wanted to reclaim what they felt was their holy land. Some of these knights were also monks who served the church and were trained to be knights in addition already trained in church discipline.
 * This image was completed around 1099 A.D of the first Christian crusade. The crusades were the churches way of reclaiming what they believed was the Christian holy land which they felt belonged to the Christian world. The only option, according to the church, was to drive the Muslims from the holy Land by force or convert them to Christianity. Crusaders traveled thousands of miles to get to the now Muslim lands. The image above demonstrates how soldiers marched into Muslim towns battling Muslim armies and townspeople in order to take back their land. Even though the Christians did this, in the end Christian forces were driven out. It also shows the chaos that went on when the battles were taking place.

Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. 1099. //ABC-CLIO: World HIstory//. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. . || Crusaders on horseback. 1243. //ABC-CLIO: World History//. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. . ||  ||