Western Civilization - History Of European Society

120 Chapter 7 complete. The voice of the people was normally ex- pressed by the crowd at the Hippodrome, the great racetrack tha ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 121 though the emperor had the power to appoint and re- move judges, ...

122 Chapter 7 The same conditions that promoted social equality may have discouraged the growth of extended families. A few grea ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 123 it had been transformed by the divine, convulsed the empire for n ...

124 Chapter 7 and south into Bohemia, Moravia, and what is now Hungary. By the middle of the sixth century, they had penetrated ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 125 These are the basic requirements of Islam, but the goal of pious ...

126 Chapter 7 Lombard attacks on Byzantine Italy, increased activity among the Slavs on the Danube border, and incursions by Ber ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 127 might call himself “the shadow of God on Earth,” the dream of a p ...

128 Chapter 7 representation of human or animal figures. Muslim artists excelled in calligraphic, geometrical, and floral decora ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 129 the fall of Rome. Visigoths (West Goths) ruled Spain, and Vandals ...

130 Chapter 7 the great epic Beowulf(first written down about the year 1000), while Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity was a ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 131 the framework of the tribe, it was almost useless when applied to ...

132 Chapter 7 form of land, grants of revenue, or other valuables. Un- like the benefices of later—feudal—times, such gifts impl ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 133 ruler of Francia. Only the sacred character of Merovin- gian king ...

134 Chapter 7 outrage marked the beginning of a long and bloody struggle. The Saxons destroyed Christian settlements and monaste ...

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West 135 Many of these foundations were unparalleled in their size and mag ...

136 Chapter 7 arrangements would not long survive him. Even had his son and grandsons been willing to ignore the ancient Salic l ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. The Great Raids of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries III. The Emergence of Feudal Institutions A ...

138Chapter 8 Danube Valley and began to plunder their neighbors to the west (see map 8.1). The motives behind this activity vari ...

The Beginnings of the Feudal Age139 cautious and relied upon speed and evasion to make good their escapes. The Vikings were perh ...