Current Events > Pretty sure I'm gonna bomb this Medieval Histort mid-term..

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We have a source book and he's going to pick 6 documents out of it and we have to analyze one in a written essay.

I've read all of them, but reviewing them is a pain in the ass (there's 60 or so documents over about 200 pages). I've highlighted the ones I think that are important.

Hopefully there's a gimmie like The Council of Nicaea.... otherwise I'm fucked.
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I can't even spell History right <_<.
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Just remember, everyone killed everyone else over absolutely nothing, and everyone else shit in buckets.

Dash_Harber posted...

Just remember, everyone killed everyone else over absolutely nothing, and everyone else shit in buckets.

Pretty much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8EZbGDt1Q
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Honestly though, The Council of Nicaea is a pretty safe bet. There will be at least one Christianity focused question. Probably something about the Great Migration, too. I'd also familiarize myself with Charlemagne and the German Kings (IIRC, one wrote a code of laws, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called). Some medieval classes also cover the fall of Rome (well, technically, Western Rome, as the Byzantines actually called themselves Romans pretty much through their entire existence), so if you remember hearing about it, study up, because they were pretty rife with legal codes (also, IIRC, Justinian wrote a legal code, too).

Dash_Harber posted...

Honestly though, The Council of Nicaea is a pretty safe bet. There will be at least one Christianity focused question. Probably something about the Great Migration, too. I'd also familiarize myself with Charlemagne and the German Kings (IIRC, one wrote a code of laws, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called). Some medieval classes also cover the fall of Rome (well, technically, Western Rome, as the Byzantines actually called themselves Romans pretty much through their entire existence), so if you remember hearing about it, study up, because they were pretty rife with legal codes (also, IIRC, Justinian wrote a legal code, too).

Yeah this covers the fall of rome.





What I have..oh fuck Justinian. Hmmm.
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What is involved in a document analysis?
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I can also pretty much guarantee that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Foundation Charter for The Abbey of Cluny will be on there. The former because of its importance in English/Western Europe history and for being pretty much the defacto English document for the era, and the latter because (IIRC) Cluny brought about the Monastery system and had a massive effect on Medieval Christianity.

I would also familiarize myself with the Coronation of Charlemagne (first real Christian empire in Europe) and the Donation of Constantine (IIRC, the document that first outlined and protected Christianity and caused its eventual spread/centralized the power of Rome).

sutree posted...

What is involved in a document analysis?

What type of document it is (religious text, annals, law t etc).
Who wrote it.
Who is it written for.
What is the implications and consequences on this document in Medieval Europe and today.

Dash_Harber posted...

I can also pretty much guarantee that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Foundation Charter for The Abbey of Cluny will be on there. The former because of its importance in English/Western Europe history and for being pretty much the defacto English document for the era, and the latter because (IIRC) Cluny brought about the Monastery system and had a massive effect on Medieval Christianity.

I would also familiarize myself with the Coronation of Charlemagne (first real Christian empire in Europe) and the Donation of Constantine (IIRC, the document that first outlined and protected Christianity and caused its eventual spread/centralized the power of Rome).

Cool..

Sounds like I have a good idea on it.

Looks like it.

Might want to add Thosodius since he was the first one to make Christianity the first state religion of Rome. Constantine wrote laws to protect and have it practiced in public.
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Lol the only one I prepared for was "The Constitution of Medina"...

I think I did well enough hopefully.
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