8 21 13 Cities and Tensions in Medieval Europe Rise of Cities in Europe What is a city in medieval Europe How do cities look How is a city organized What s wrong with cities Themes in the High Middle Ages An Essentially Rural Society with Cities Emerging Later Reestablishment of Kingdoms Bureaucracies and Law Codes Incorporation of Greek Thought Especially Aristotle Church at the Height of its Spiritual and Secular Power Europeans are Looking Abroad Crusades Trade with the Levant etc Early 1300s as Facing a Crisis What s in a term Crisis Malthusian Tensions Political and Economic Turmoil Terms enclave Bardi Peruzzi Coeur Levant The Rise of Cities in Medieval Europe What is a city in medieval Europe How do cities look 1 8 21 13 2 8 21 13 3 8 21 13 How is a city organized 4 8 21 13 5 8 21 13 What s wrong with cities 6 8 21 13 Themes in the High Middle Ages 1 An Essentially Rural Society with Cities Emerging Later 2 Reestablishment of Kingdoms Bureaucracies and Law Codes 3 Incorporation of Greek Thought Especially Aristotle 7 8 21 13 4 Church at the Height of its Spiritual and Secular Power 5 Europeans are Looking Abroad Crusades Trade with the Levant etc 8 8 21 13 Early 1300s as Facing a Crisis What s in a term crisis Malthusian Tensions High population density Shortage of arable land much less good land Precarious food supplies Dispossession of younger sons and daughters The Little Ice Age climatic fluctuations Thomas Malthus 1766 1834 9 8 21 13 A Malthusian Crisis Political and Economic Turmoil 10
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