The barbarians have broken through the ramparts. The Saracen [Moors} invasions have spread in successive waves over the South. The Hungarians swarm over the Eastern provinces...they sacked town and village, and laid waste the fields. They burned down the churches and then departed with a crowd of captives….There is no longer any trade, only unceasing terror….The peasant has abandoned his ravaged fields to avoid the violence of anarchy. The people have gone to cower in the depth of the forests or in inaccessible regions, or have taken refuge in the high mountain...Society has no longer any government….
Historical Context: barbarians, saracen invasion, hungarians
Intended Audience: peasants and the middle age society
Point-of-View: people were attacking inoccents
Purpose: to show what happened with the barbarian attacks
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According to the author, what were conditions like in Europe during the 800s: eau rope in this period was similar to what we know as the wast or the wild west.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells of invasions of England.
842: In this year there was a great slaughter in London and Quentavic and in Rochester.
846: According to their custom the Northmen plundered...and burned the town of Dordrecht….the Northmen, with their boats filled with immense booty, including both men and goods, returned to their own country….
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According to the Chronicle, what is happening at this time (842 - 846)?
Document 3
This excerpt is from the monastic vows of Brother Gerald.
I hereby renounce my parents, my brothers and relatives, my friends, my possessions...and the vain and empty glory and pleasure of this world. I also renounce my own will, for the will of God. I accept all the hardships of the monastic life, and take the vows of purity, chastity, and poverty, in the hope of heaven; and I promise to remain a monk in this monastery all the days of my life.
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Document 4
In 1095, Pope Urban II issued a call for a holy crusade -a war to recapture the Holy Land.
...Your brethren who live in the [Middle] East are in urgent need of your help….For, as most of you have heard, the Turks and the Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania [the Byzantine Empire]....They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians….They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches and devastated the Empire...All who die by the way, whether by land or sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins.
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How does this call for a crusade demonstrate the power of the Pope and the Catholic Church?
i have the first one, could someone help me and guide me to the answers. i am not asking for the answers, i am asking for help with it.
Do you mean that you can't figure out any of the other answers??
@Ms.Sue if you look at the first one, i did respond to it, but i am having trouble with the rest of them.
The historical context in each is determined by the time described in the event (year, era, etc.) and the events that took place.
For example, the excerpt provided for #1 does not give a clue as to when or where the invasions took place, so it's hard to put it in context. Is this what is now Italy, Greece, Spain or exactly where? I assume the time is the early Middle Ages, soon after the fall of the Roman Empire?
Intended audience is who will read (or who is it hoped will read) the account. For example, the vows Gerald took will be recited before other monks and God.
Point of view: Who is speaking or writing and is he involved in the events (a participant), an observer, a victim, a perpetrator? Is the speaker/writer in the Chronical a Norseman, a Brit, or somebody writing from outside the events, as an impartial observer. Is it a contemporary account, or written by someone who is writing from another time and place?
Purpose: Why would someone write this down?
Outside information: Has the author done research to discover what these events were? Has he interviewed people or read other accounts of events he did not witness?
The final question you are to answer asks you to demonstrate that you understand what you have read. Do you?
Historical context also means what was going on the world that may have brought about these events.
@reed could you help me just a little bit more with guidance?
What don't you understand about Reed's explanation?
Why don't you try doing a few of these yourself. We'll be glad to check your answers.