The Feudal Age: Viking Invasions, Political Fragmentation, and Social Changes in Europe - , Study notes of Cultural History of Europe

Download The Feudal Age: Viking Invasions, Political Fragmentation, and Social Changes in Europe - and more Study notes Cultural History of Europe in PDF only on Docsity! The Feudal Age The Vikings • Danish, Norwegian, & Swedish • Polytheistic • Priest-Chieftain Class • Christianity Reconstructed Viking Age longhouse The Invasions: The Continent • Western France (800) • Iberian Peninsula • Mediterranean Sea • Rhone Valley • Normandy • Charles the Simple – r. 898-922 • Rollo – Duke of Normandy (est. 911) Eastern Europe • Slavs – Iron – Fortified Towns – Polytheistic • Mass Migrations • West Slavs: Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, & Wends • South Slavs: Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians • Moravia The Eastern Slavs • Russian & the Ukraine • Oleg (r. 878-912) • Kiev • Rus • Orthodox Christianity Feudalism • Decentralization of Power • Localism • Warrior-Knights = Vassals • Fealty • Loyalty, Aid, Military Service • Protection and Material Support Feudalism • Fief = Land – Forests, Churches, Towns • Personal ties of Loyalty Cemented by Grants of Land • Organization of Political Authority • The Clergy • 2 Social Levels – Lords – Fief-Holding Knights (vassals) The Feudal Milieu • Viking Invasions & Carolingian Decline • Charles Martel • Non Legally Binding • Loire & Rhine Rivers • Regional