Michelangelo – Renaissance art
The artist Michelangelo's David When did Michelangelo live? Not long after Leonardo da Vinci started working, in 1475 AD, a new artist was born in northern Italy. His name was [...]
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Roger Bacon – Medieval science
Roger Bacon's diagram of a human eye When did Roger Bacon live? Roger Bacon was born in England maybe about 1210 AD. It was late in the reign of King John. (That's the one [...]
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Sixth Crusade – Medieval History
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Soon after the failure of the Fifth Crusade, Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, decided he would try his luck on Crusade, since he hadn't been allowed [...]
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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 [...]
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Late medieval Florence – the Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici In the early 1400s AD, a few rich families ruled the city-state of Florence in northern Italy. With the Holy Roman Empire very weak, these families ran Florence as an independent country. But most people in [...]
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Fifth Crusade – Medieval history
The siege of Damietta: Fifth Crusade Europeans attack Jerusalem In 1216 AD, Pope Honorius III succeeded in getting some more Europeans to agree to try again to conquer Jerusalem from the Ayyubids. The Fourth [...]
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Second Crusade – Medieval history
Castle of Edessa After the First Crusade After the First Crusade in 1096 AD set up Christian kingdoms all along the coast of Israel and Lebanon, of course the Fatimid caliphs who had ruled that area before [...]
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Medieval Poland
Otto I (on a seal) attacked medieval Poland The Slavs live in Poland During the Early Middle Ages, a lot of small princes and dukes ruled the place where Poland is now. None [...]
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Matilda of Flanders – William the Conqueror
Matilda of Flanders had this church built: Nave of Abbaye aux Dames (Caen, 1050 AD) Who was Matilda of Flanders? About 1050 AD, William the Conqueror married Matilda of Flanders. They were both [...]
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King John and the Magna Carta
Prince John on a coin Why did people hate King John? When Richard the Lionhearted died of gangrene in 1199 AD (when he was 42), his younger brother John became king. The [...]
