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3 08, 2017

Late medieval France – Anne, Anne, and Charles IX

By |2019-01-27T20:23:33-08:00August 3rd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Late medieval France – Anne, Anne, and Charles IX

King Louis XI of France The Hundred Years' War During the Late Middle Ages, with the Crusades and the Hundred Years' War over, the French kings fought mainly to get control of more and [...]

2 08, 2017

Medieval Italy – the High Middle Ages

By |2019-10-08T08:10:12-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Medieval Italy – the High Middle Ages

Medieval Italy: Matilda of Canossa (ca. 1100 AD) Matilda of Canossa By about 900 AD, the Holy Roman Emperors started to lose power over Northern Italy. The Counts of Canossa controlled most of Northern [...]

2 08, 2017

Early Medieval Italy

By |2019-10-09T07:32:17-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Early Medieval Italy

Early medieval Italy: Lombard shield boss (to make spears slide off it) (Metropolitan Museum, New York) Northern Italy and France In 774 AD, Charlemagne conquered northern Italy from the Lombards. Soon after that [...]

2 08, 2017

Republic of Florence – Medieval Italy

By |2019-06-10T21:04:22-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Republic of Florence – Medieval Italy

Romanesque baptistery in the Republic of Florence, Italy Florence ruled by Matilda of Canossa The last of the Carolingian Holy Roman Emperors died in 924 AD. Then northern Italy - including Florence and nearby Genoa [...]

2 08, 2017

Eleanor of Aquitaine – Queen of France and England

By |2019-03-25T05:46:22-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Eleanor of Aquitaine – Queen of France and England

Eleanor of Aquitaine (Cloisters Museum, New York City) Eleanor of Aquitaine was fifteen years old in 1137 AD, and not yet married, when her father, the Duke of Aquitaine, died suddenly. [...]

2 08, 2017

Matilda of Canossa – Medieval Europe

By |2019-12-06T12:22:08-08:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Matilda of Canossa – Medieval Europe

Matilda of Canossa (Vatican Museum) Northern Italy around 1000 AD By 1000 AD, the invading Lombards had married local rich men and women of Italy. They mixed their families together. A few rich families, [...]

2 08, 2017

Vikings – Early Medieval Scandinavia

By |2019-09-11T10:32:14-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Vikings – Early Medieval Scandinavia

A Viking ship. Viking trade took the Vikings all over the world. Who were the Vikings? The Vikings were Indo-European people from Scandinavia (modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden). Around the 400s AD the Vikings started to [...]

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