tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post6929567527215510932..comments2023-12-22T20:36:45.744-05:00Comments on Isle of Wonder: The End of the Middle AgesThe Red Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-47414239498331640512009-05-21T14:37:31.003-04:002009-05-21T14:37:31.003-04:00As you see, every date has its fans. ;)
BridgetAs you see, every date has its fans. ;)<br /><br />BridgetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-61657299323761650772009-05-21T08:28:39.456-04:002009-05-21T08:28:39.456-04:00I asked my first year Prof who is a Medievalist wh...I asked my first year Prof who is a Medievalist what he would chose if he were voting and he opted for 1485. It was the end of the War of the Roses and Caxton printed Shakespeare.The Red Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-52028126352219998672009-05-19T09:54:00.000-04:002009-05-19T09:54:00.000-04:00The Great Plague was indeed the beginning of the e...The Great Plague was indeed the beginning of the end but the discovery of the New World was also very important - for the medieval people it must have been such a piece of news as if we have been announced a discovery of another planet, fully inhabited and rich to add - the known world was made twice as big as it had been before! Difficult to choose but the majority of changes did started with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-42447398439218849942009-05-18T10:19:00.000-04:002009-05-18T10:19:00.000-04:001348 (great plague) for me too.1348 (great plague) for me too.hckhttp://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/W4RF/YaBB.plnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-26785888560147655722009-05-18T09:02:00.000-04:002009-05-18T09:02:00.000-04:00LOL I like that - upwardly mobile peasants. One t...LOL I like that - upwardly mobile peasants. One thing missing from the whole list is the granting of charters to cities. It was a means of breaking the power of the barons by the kings but it gave regular people a means of escaping serfdom. If you escaped from an estate and lived in a free city for a year, you became a free citizen. <br />They elected representatives and raised their own taxesThe Red Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-36656283394834147332009-05-18T08:24:00.000-04:002009-05-18T08:24:00.000-04:00I chosed Martin Luther's 95 Theses as well. I thin...I chosed Martin Luther's 95 Theses as well. I think that's when people first started to reconsider the power of the Church and to actually think about what it was they believed in. Once that happens, there's no turning back.<br /><br />That was a tough one...I think maybe all of those things occurring together helped bring the world out of the Middle Ages and into the Reformation.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-24429476722322602302009-05-18T05:11:00.000-04:002009-05-18T05:11:00.000-04:00The Reformation movement was indeed very important...The Reformation movement was indeed very important and I think the Middle Ages fall lasted longer than one year or a decade. I picked the discovery of the New World but I meant it rather as a starting date. Perhaps the whole process did rather start with the Plague and social changes it forced on Europe. There as many theories as historians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-49835284955505374052009-05-18T05:07:00.000-04:002009-05-18T05:07:00.000-04:00I voted for other - The Black Death - it reduced E...I voted for other - The Black Death - it reduced England's population by a third and enabled many of the peasants who survived to demand higher wages, force down rents and vastly increase their standard of living - we had that oxymoron, upwardly-mobile peasants!Tracynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-68316636059851318302009-05-17T19:21:00.000-04:002009-05-17T19:21:00.000-04:00I know what you mean. Breaking the power of the C...I know what you mean. Breaking the power of the Catholic Church seems pretty important too since it owned the Middle Ages.The Red Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-1272454017782038022009-05-17T12:41:00.000-04:002009-05-17T12:41:00.000-04:00I was inclined to vote as you did but I think all ...I was inclined to vote as you did but I think all our discussion lately on the Reformation led me to choose Martin Luther's posting the 95 Theses. I will be curious to see what others choose because I have read the Black Plague was a pretty key point too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com