Medieval Europe 1000-1250

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Contents 1 Lectures 1.1 Michaelmas Term 2 Tutorial work 3 Essays

Lectures

Michaelmas Term

• 'Feudalism': Aristocratic society and feudal government in the eleventh- and twelfth-centuries
• Monarchy in the eleventh-century:
  • The Capetian monarchy of the kingdom of France
  • The kingdom of the Germans and the western empire
• Church and society in the eleventh- and early-twelfth-centuries:
  • Monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh-centuries
  • The Papal Reform Movement 1046-1130
  • Monastic reform in the earlier twelfth-century
  • Twelfth-century intellectual life: the schools
• Government in the twelfth-century
  • The making of the Norman kingdom of Sicily
  • The Capetian kingdom of France
  • The Western Empire
• The Crusades
• The church and the secular powers in the early thirteenth century
  • Pope Innocent III
  • Heresy and the new religious orders
  • Emporer Frederick II

Tutorial work

• To be added

Essays

• Cluniac and Papal reform in the eleventh century

submitted by Aengus Kerrin - 64%

• What was at the root of the conflict between Gregory VII and Henry IV?

submitted by Daniel O'Brien - 61%

• Explain the successes of the First Crusade

submitted by Felim McGrath - 70%

• The rise in authority of the Capetian Kings of France in the twelfth century

submitted by Caer Nic Gabhann - 2:1

• Discuss the reasons for the successes of the First Crusade

submitted by Felix Sherrington-Kendall - 64%

• The First Sicilian: An examination of the issues between Roger II and the papacy

submitted by Katherine Worden - ?%