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- Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ch as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[Constantinople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cat...
4: ...events, the word crusade has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanin...
7: ...ors always sought an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I...
11: ...ried to marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religiou...
15: ...lims toward Christian pilgrims; these rumors then played an important role in the development of the c... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
7: The general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration....
9: ... is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural decl...
11: ...s lines in a repeatable fashion. The use of multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has develop...
17: ...out 1240), the treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notatio...
19: ...t definitely identifiable scholar to accept and explain the mensural system was Johannes de Muris ([[J... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ... thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genr...
7: ... the older oral traditions of the [[Germanic]] peoples. [[Celtic]] traditions have survived in the [[B...
22: ...often controlled by local [[guild]]s, and mystery plays would be performed regularly on set feast-days...
32: ...he ''roman courtois'' is distinguished from the ''chanson de geste'' not only by its subject matter, but al...
34: ...rtained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area in which they were born. (But note t... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
10: ...by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in [[1505]], who died of the plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[150...
14: ...]], writing in the [[1580s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; a...
20: ...ion to the sacred works, Josquin wrote numerous [[chanson]]s, some of which became very popular, and were c... - French language (40201 bytes)
19: ...in the world, being spoken by about 77 million people (called [[Francophones]]) as a [[mother tongue]]...
25: ...bited largely by a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] people that the Romans referred to as [[Gaul|Gauls]], a...
27: ...in Latin were imported into Latin — for example, clothing items such as ''les braies''. Latin q...
46: ...enturies, [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]-speaking peoples from southwestern Britain ([[Wales]], [[Cornwal...
54: The [[Arab]] peoples also supplied many words to French around this time period, ... - Charlemagne (11466 bytes)
16: ...o make western Europe independent of [[Constantinople]], Charlemagne did not use the title until much ...
18: ...King [[Offa of Mercia]] took up the system set in place by Pepin. He set up a new standard, the [[livr...
20: Charlemagne applied the system to much of the European Continent, ...
42: ...tales were first told in the ''[[chanson de geste|chansons de geste]]''. Charlemagne himself was accorded s...
44: ...y]] and as a result of [[intermarriage]]s many people of [[noble]] descent can indeed trace their ance...
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