Middle+Ages+Artifacts


 * [[image:9343_934372w.jpg width="253" height="361" align="center"]] || The painting shown here was taken as a tournament is going on between two knights, tournaments were used as a entertainment for vassals, lords, and kings. It is also used to show the kinghts skills and allowing them to try to win fiefs of there own, but also they had a chance to lose their horse and be humiliated by everyone there. The way that one became a kinght was by going through kinght trainging or knighthood. The kinghthood was not associated and not normal full of freedom. Its development was closely connected with a society that was founded upon the possession of castles; the //milites//, who defended castles, became knights as a result of the adoption of a new form of combat that involved the use of the "couched" lance and came to characterize knighthood. It was originally possible for almost any man to become a knight. However, knighthood came to be increasingly closed to those of nonnoble origin through ever more precise juridical limitations. The role of knights in medieval warfare is in need of reevaluation. The knightly moral code was born of economic necessity and gradually incorporated moral, social, and religious dimensions.

Von Klingen, Wallther, Herr. //13th-century joust from the Codex Manesse//. 1305-1340. //ABC CLIO World History Ancient and Medieval Eras//. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <[]Display.aspxstoryid=1185706&entryid=934372&issublink=true&fromsearch=false>. ||
 * [[image:675216w.jpg width="363" height="237" align="center"]] || This picture shows a leading general in Justinian 1st Byzantine emperor named Belisarius when he leaves Rome to attack the Goths. This was because of the constant attack or threat of the Gothic tribes, which Belisarius defended with his aggressive military strategy. Belisarius was a very successful person but, some of the time worsened the fears of Justinian about his powerful and popular general. In his early life Belisarius came out with little success. Then when Justinian became emperor he made Belisarius head of the the soldiers. When this happened Belisarius blossomed and lead imperial armies to takeover the west.Belisarius provided further service for Justinian's great plan to reconquer the west by leading imperial armies, although sometimes with inadequate support, into Italy. In the early 530s, the Ostrogothic kingdom of the late Theodoric the Great was rent by conflict between his daughter Amalasuntha and much of the Gothic nobility.Belisarius had one final moment of glory in the service of Justinian and the empire. In 559, an army of Huns invaded from the north. Justinian called on Belisarius to save the capital city, and with only a small army, he did just that.

 Clark, John. Belisarius leaves Rome. 1901. Ridpath's History of the World. ABC-CLIO World History Ancient and Medival Eras. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. This is a picture is of the Duke of Burgundy rides with his army. In the Medieval era the duchy of Burgundy was nominally a fief of France independent state. Philip II who was known as as the duke of Burgundy was a son of the King. Before Philip's was the duke of Burgundy and First Peer of France. In Phillip life he took advantage of his power to crush a rebellion with troops.In 1360, King John granted Philip the title duke of Touraine, and in 1363, he appointed him duke of Burgundy and First Peer of France In 1366, Charles appointed Philip as his lieutenant in Champagne, and he began a series of negotiations that would result in Philip marrying Countess Margaret III of Flanders in 1369While Charles V was alive, Philip was a faithful ally. He used his forces from both Burgundy and Flanders to take back French towns held by the English. In 1388, Charles VI demanded the kingship in his own right. Unfortunately, by 1392, he was demonstrating bouts of insanity that effectively incapacitated him as a ruler. Philip eventually reached peace treaties with the Duke of Brittany and the Crown of England, creating a pocket of peace in the otherwise interminable Hundred Years' War.

Duke of Burgundy and his army. 1363. ABC-Clio World History Ancient and Medieval Eras. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <[]Search ||