Glossa Extraordinaria: High Middle Ages

		Glossa Extraordinaria: High Middle Ages
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		-NB: Many of these dates are approximate! 1050s The Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh Tales, are gathered Nennius, Lebor Bretnach Arnold von St. Emmeram, De miraculis b. Emmerammi the Normans infiltrate England building of Exeter Cathedral begins polyphonic singing replaces Gregorian chant 1053 Danegeld abolished 1054 Schism between Catholic and Orthodox churches becomes irreconcilable 1060s Consecration of Westminster Abbey 1066 Norman Conquest: Sept. 25: Battle at Stamford Bridge Oct. 14: Battle of Hastings; Dec 25: William the Conqueror is crowned and work begins on Bayeux Tapestry 1070s Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1087) translates Greek medical treatises Adam von Bremen, Historia Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae 1074 Excommunication of married priests established Building of the Tower of London begins (-1300) 1076 Diet of Worms: Henry IV withdraws recognition of Pope Gregory VII; Gregory VII excommunicates him in return 1077 Henry IV goes as a penitent to Canossa and is absolved by the Pope Completion of the Bayeux Tapestry 1079 Building of Winchester Cathedral begins 1085 The Christians capture Toledo, the passageway of Greek/Arabic knowledge into Christian Europe 1086 Compilation of Domesday Book (survey of assessment for taxes) 1090s San Marco at Venice is completed First record of gondolas in Venice 1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar ("El Cid") takes Valencia from the Moors 1095 Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II proclaims the First Crusade 1196 Pogroms in the wake of the First Crusade (Speyer, Worms, Mainz, Trier) 1099 The Crusaders take Jerusalem Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, "El Cid", dies Back to top 1100s Chanson de Roland Middle English supersedes Old English Colonization of eastern Germany begins Gothic architecture develops Third Pueblo period in Southwest America 1100 Robert of Arbrissel founds Fontevrault 1110s Order of the Knights Hospitalers of St. John founded St. Nicholas, Nowgorod, is founded (early onion-domed church) Cathedral of Modena: Porta della Pescheria (scenes from Arthurian literature) 1113 Peter Abelard opens his school in Paris 1119 Bologna University founded 1120s Vézelay, Sainte Madelaine begun Monastery church at Prüfening, frescoes Flying buttresses come into fashion 1122 Concordat of Worms settles investiture question: Henry V may invest the German bishops with the lands of their sees, receive their homage and be present at their elections; but renounces his right to invest 1123 First Lateran Council suppresses simony and marriage of priests 1130s The stone bridge over the Danube at Regensburg is built Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum Mearum, correspondence with Heloïse 1137 Louis VII of France marries Eleanor of Aquitaine Abbot Suger begins to build Saint-Denis in the Gothic style 1139 Second Lateran Council 1140s Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae Failure of the Second Crusade Hildegard von Bingen, Scivias 1143 Founding of Lübeck 1147 Monastery at Maulbronn begun 1147-8 Second Crusade 1150s Founding of Paris University First insurance against fire and the plague (in Iceland) The Chinese use explosives in warfare Glossa Ordinaria finished by Petrus Lombardus Geoffrey of Monmouth, Vita Merlini 1152 Louis VII of France divorces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who marries Henry of Anjou, afterwards King of England 1155 Friedrich Barbarossa crowned emperor Regensburg, Allerheiligenkapelle begun Wace, Roman de Brut 1160s Der von Kürenberg writing Marie de France, Lais Thomas Beroul, Tristan et Iseult Alanus ab Insulis, Planctus Naturae Founding of Oxford University Maastricht, St. Servatius, shrine of St. Servatius 1163 Notre Dame, Paris, begun 1166 Braunschweig Lion 1170s Andreas Capellanus, De Amore Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, Le Chevalier de la Charette (Lancelot), Cligés Heinrich von Veldeke, Eneasroman Eilhart von Oberge, Tristrant Campanile of Pisa (the "Leaning Tower") built Bridge over the Rhône at Avignon built ("Sur le pont...") 1170 Walther von der Vogelweide born (died 1230) Thomas Becket is murdered at Canterbury 1180s Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain, Perceval Hartmann von Aue, Erek Lai of Igor (Russian) Gospel of Henry the Lion Aachen cathedral, Charlemagne’s shrine Nicolaus von Verdun, Klosterneuburg altar 1182 The Jews are banished from France Francis of Assisi born (dies 1226) 1184 Diet at Mainz, dubbing of Frederick Barbarossa’s sons 1185 Neidhard von Reuental born (died c.1240) 1187 Saladin takes Jerusalem 1189 Richard I, the Lionheart, is crowned massacre of the Jews at the coronation Third crusade (-1193) 1190s The Nibelungenlied The Elder Edda French Fabliaux Hartmann von Aue, Gregorius, Der arme Heinrich, Iwein Köln Cathedral, shrine of the three Magi 1192 Richard Lionheart is captured by Leopold, Duke of Austria, released 1194 1193 Albertus Magnus born (dies 1280) Back to top 1200s Nibelungenlied Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival Gottfried von Straßburg, Tristan und Isolde The Owl and the Nightingale and Poema de mio Cid Castle Rodenegg (Austria), Iwein frescoes 1200 Founding of Cambridge University 1203 In summer, the vineyards at Erfurt were destroyed in a time of war. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival mentions this in S. 379,18ff., and this is the date by which the majority of the middle high German literature can be dated. 1205 Tannhäuser born (dies 1270) 1206 Genghis Khan becomes chief prince of the Mongols 1210s Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm Penninc, Roman van Walewein Straßburg minster, choir 1210 Albigensian crusades in Southern France against Cathar heretics 1212 Children’s Crusade (until 1229) 1215 Kubla Khan born (dies 1294) King John signs the Magna Carta Fourth Lateran Council forbids trial by ordeal 1220s Guillaume de Lorris, Roman de la Rose Prose Tristan Eike von Repgow, Sachsenspiegel "sumer is icumen in" Snorri Sturluson, Snorra Edda Riddarasögur (translations of Old French romances into Old Norse) Salisbury cathedral begun cotton manufactured in Spain 1222 Founding of Padua University Heinrich von Morungen dies 1226 October 3, Francis of Assisi dies Toledo cathedral begun Teutonic Knights conquer Prussia 1230s Codex Buranus: Carmina Burana Kudrun Berlin MS of Heinrich von Veldeke, Eneasroman Braunschweig cathedral, tomb of Henry the Lion and his wife Abbazia di San Mercuriale, Forlì, tympanon Coal mining at Newcastle, England, begins 1230 Walther von der Vogelweide dies (born 1170) 1240s Neidhard von Reuental dies (born c.1185) Emperor Friedrich II, De arte venandi cum avibus Wernher der Gartenaere, Helmbrecht Berthold von Regensburg, Sermons dolce stil nuovo developed in Italy Alfonso el Sabio, Cantigas Munich MSS: Parzival/Titurel, Tristan Mongols conquer Russia La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris built "dolce stil nuovo" comes into Italian poetry 1245 Westminster Abbey begun 1250s Völsunga saga the first Chansonniers: compilations of the love songs of the troubadors and trouvères Commercial and industrial boom in northern and central Italian cities Chertsey Tiles (depicting the Tristan story, etc.) San Francesco, Assisi finished 1251 Kubla Khan becomes Governor of China 1258 Mongols take Baghdad, the spiritual center of the Muslim world 1260s Jacobus a Voragine, Legenda Aurea Greenland and Iceland conquered by Norway 1265 Dante Alighieri born (dies 1321) 1266 Giotto di Bondone born (dies 1337) 1270s Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Hereford map 1270 Tannhäuser dies 1271 Marco Polo departs to China 1280s Gesta Romanorum South English Legendary Cecco Angiolieri, Sonnetts 1280 Albertus Magnus dies 1284 Final conquest of Wales by Edward I 1285 Adam de la Halle, Le Jeu de Robin et Marion 1287 Guido de Columnis, Historia Destructionis Troiae 1290s Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova End of the Crusades Invention of spectacles Dollinger stucco in merchant’s house, Regensburg synagogue, Prag, built 1291 Everlasting League between Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden 1294 February, Kubla Khan dies 1296 Stone of Scone moved from Scotland to Westminster 1297 Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, begun 1298 Marco Polo dictates his memoirs in jail in Genoa 1299 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, begun Back to top

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