- In frabce from 1000 to 1400 the Francs were the domonent power
- support of the church is kye to poitical sucess
- Capetians earned there prestige by build for the church
- animal hide books are used in middle ages (manuscript)
- 1095 - pope ordered the first crusade
*remember the three battles in 1066
- The pope descides that they are going to take the muslims out of the holy land
- this was a major bad idea and were bloody and useless
- political and finantual power spreads along the traid routes
French archetecture
- Romenesque - around 1000
- art of period shows emeges of judgement
- churches built like fortresses - hid in cathedral if town attacked
- melenial imagre (year 1000)
- next period around 1200 - Gothic
- opposite of romenesque
- has stained glass - let more light in (not thinking about judgement day but about the light of the world and hope
- theology and archetecture compiment each other
- flying butresses help make walls thinner and make it possible to add more wondows
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