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The Black Deaths: Death One of the most devastating pandemics in history during the 14th century caused turmoil and massive death amongst Europe. The disastrous disease known as the Black Death ultimately wrenched society in melancholia and disseverment. As a result, a series of social and economic upheavals had a profound effect on society; creating lack of optimism of better days. The people suffered religiously because the pandemic displayed a darker side of life leaving them to question their

there was once an Oxford student named Nicholas, who studied astrology and was well acquainted with the art of love. Nicholas boarded with a wealthy but ignorant old carpenter named John, who was jealous and highly possessive of his sexy eighteen-year-old wife, Alisoun. One day, the carpenter leaves, and Nicholas and Alisoun begin flirting. Nicholas grabs Alisoun, and she threatens to cry for help. He then begins to cry, and after a few sweet words, she agrees to sleep with him when it is safe to

making them a monophonic. Gregorian chants have small leaps, allowing its smooth figure to create a kind of musical speech. Free from regular phrase structure, the continuous vocal line is the musical counterpart to the ornamentation found in medieval art and architecture. In chants that serve for recitations, such as psalms, lessons, or prayers, the music is secondary to a clear projection of the text; these settings are predominantly syllabic and use relatively few pitches.The Gregorian melodies

viewed. However, during the plague music was played very grimly and the art became somber. The artists were surrounded by the horrific nature of the Black Death. These artists used their works to escape and to deal with what was happening in their current lives and reflect on the way they were feeling. Since many people went into depression, they began to lose the beauty of art and music they once had. The somber change in art and music showed the change in the world around them. People of the time

The Black Death is the name that was given to a global epidemic of the bubonic plague that occurred in medieval Europe during the 1350’s. It was brought to Europe when twelve ships arrived filled with people either infected or dead from the disease, and it spread quickly. The disease wiped approximately 60 percent of Europe’s entire population, which is more than any other known pandemic up until that time. Although the black plague had drastic effects on Europe’s population and social structure

Love as a concept in general has evolved greatly over the several millennia of human civilization, but in particular the concept of courtly love has changed greatly in perception. Courtly love is the concept of a noble and pure but illicit love, often between a knight or nobleman and a married noblewoman. Courtly love was seen as a beautiful thing in the high Middle Ages, but throughout the late Middle Ages and on to modern times the concept of courtly love has taken on much more negative contexts;

and the standard of living was subsequently raised" (Courie). They could spend more on things that they enjoyed rather than just food and shelter. This is one of the factors that led to the Renaissance because people could now focus on things like arts and learning instead of just survival. Serfs who had been tied to land for generations before the Plague could now leave and do almost anything they wanted because of the labor shortage. According to John Kelly, "In the second half of the fourteenth

The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, combination, and temporal relationships produce a composition having unity and continuity; in layman’s terms, music. Music is an art that has evolved for many centuries. It is a form of expression and beauty. It has come a long way from beating rocks with sticks and listening to the sound. A drastic change took place during the Renaissance Period. The instruments changed, new genres emerged, and new composition techniques were used.

MAKE SURE YOU PARAPHRASE OTHER PEOPLES NOTES THE TEACHERS WILL BE CHECKING Hey Guys use the index in the back of the book to find all of your terms!!! So much easier How are the following significant to the Historical Lather? Great Famine- Period of mass starvation, disease and emigration: 1315-22 occurred in almost all of Northern Europe. Black Death- was an epidemic outbreak of bubonic plagues in Europe around 1348 that killed between one third and two thirds of the population in less than

We study the middle ages in the classroom to see how humans evolved and how much of an impact in has on society today. The middle ages were all about “...celebrating the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.”(History.com Staff) How their empires created these systems that we follow. We learn and understand how the feudal system works and how our system is reflected off of that today. We also learn about the roles of women, how society treats them, and how their social status has changed over