Lecture Notes Outline
A New Order: Turmoil & Consolidation
- The Vikings
- Rise of European monarchies
- East and West begin their final split
- Photian schism (9th century)
- The Papacy’s rising claims
- The Great Schism (1054)
- Sack of Constantinople (1204)
- Eastern Orthodoxy flourishes amid Byzantine decline
- Council of Florence (1430s-1440s)
The Crusades & Eastern Christendom
- The First Crusade & the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Military-Monastic Orders & the Second Crusade
- Saladin and the Third Crusade
- Crusades of the 1200s
- Fall of the Latin kingdoms in the Levant
- Mongol invasions & the fall of the Church of the East
- Northern European crusades
- End of the Byzantine Empire
- Reconquista in Spain