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    belief they are doing something right. Mankind has always wanted to make things right and solve problems which often leads to a change in every aspect of that specific century. The transition from the middle ages to the Renaissance drastically changed art, culture, and the common worldview. The middle ages were viewed in a negative connotation as far as art and music goes. It was a religious time, focusing on God above all else. The Renaissance brought about works of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael

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    Art In The Middle Ages

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    Art of the Middle Ages In the Middle Ages their art was considerably different then a lot of the art we have now. They had no portrait paintings and the color schemes were generally very subtle in their work. Most of artwork during this time period revolved around religion themes. During the Middle Ages up until the start of the Renaissance period, art saw many drastic changes through the years. Three main types of art during this time period was Byzantine Art, Romanesque Art, and Gothic Art. These

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    Women And The Middle Ages

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    rights, their appearance, and especially their sexual affairs. From the beginning of time men have controlled if not all, most of the aspects of a woman’s life. This was the same case in Europe from the 5th to 15th centuries, better known as the middle ages. In medieval times, not many women worked, although some did have jobs such as writing, nursing, baking, spinning and weaving. Many of them worked with their husbands in the fields. “They were hired to do various types of agricultural labour,

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    The Middle Ages is thought to be a time period of obliviousness by many historians, where diminutive or no developments took place. The church was the focus of attention, and rather than a logical outlook of the world, beliefs were concentrated around fallacies; on the other hand, the resurgence of education and innovations that followed the Middle Ages and was branded as the Renaissance. There have been disagreements as to whether the Renaissance is actually a isolated time period, or instead, just

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    from the culture of their ancient ancestors in order to reach "modern" views that were able to rise above the backward views of the Middle Ages. Antiquity is the cultural ideas rooted in the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Renaissance was a time period that stepped back hundreds of years in order to renew and rebirth the culture that was nearly lost as the Middle Ages began. This was the initial steps taken towards capitalism that was driven by banks and taxes imposed by the princes and diverted

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    Replace the knight’s apparel with a dusty tunic, elbow pad, knee pad, and bare feet. The middle ages is looked upon as a glorious time that provided the present day with exaggerated tales of brave knights rescuing beautiful princesses who have been cursed by evil witches who lock them away in ominous towers guarded by overprotective dragons. According to strenuous research concerning events during the Middle Ages, terrorism, feudalism, and the religious structure of the church established a formidable

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    Christianity during the middle ages had to overcome many people and to need to evolve in order to grow as fast as its leading religion which was islamic faith. When the religion was in its prime of evolving it need to become a stable and function community which during war it felt very unlike to. So as Christianity began to grow many followers and believers had to lose their lives because others didn’t agree with them. Since Christianity is one of the most dominant religion containing more than

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    The Museum in the Middle Age During the Middle Age when governed by Christianity, the churches and monasteries played a role as a treasure storage for collections and exhibitions of precious goods. Even the most of collected and produced objects or art works were the tools for religious ceremony and the ornaments for the interior and exterior of church. The churches used a collection and display of precious goods in a way to attracts the publics to the church unlike that artworks were given secular

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    West came to the point of Middle Ages, people crossed the borders that had drawn on the subject of state and government power. There were two important events that leaded this changes: Christianity and feudalism. By the formal recognition of Christianity and embracement of this religion throughout Europeans, religious thoughts and teachings has become the main features of this era. Even though the real Christianity concerns about the value of humans, I found middle Ages as a prison of freedom of

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    Justin Nielsen History 620 Dr. Nice The Waning of the Middle Ages-Part II A classic, written in 1924, this is cultural history at its best. Rather than being a history, or chronicle, this is Johan Huizinga’s bold attempt to understand the culture of France and Burgundy as it was at the height of the Middle Ages. It reconstructs that mentalités world in order to recreate its spiritual life, its theological assumptions, religious practices, its ethical ideals. Additionally, it reconstructs actual

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