1. CULTURES OF EUROPE THE AGE OF CHIVALRY The Middle Ages c. 5th-15th century

2. The Fall of the Roman Empire

3. " Dark Ages „ ( Early Middle Ages) a characterization highlighting the relative scarcity of literary and cultural output from this time, especially in Western Europe.

4. Christian Crusades

5. The Black Death

6. The Crucifix/Cross

7. Jesus Christ: Son of God and Son of Mary (The Annunciation, The Holy Family)

9. The Last Judgement Christus, Petrus, 1452, Berlin – hierarchy Next slide: Hans Memling – a triptych (altarpiece) – The Last Judgement (Gdansk)

11. Thomas Celano, 13th c. Latin Hymn: Dies Irae Day of wrath! O day of mourning! See fulfilled the prophets' warning, Heaven and earth in ashes burning! Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, when from heaven the Judge descendeth, on whose sentence all dependeth Death is struck, and nature quaking, all creation is awaking, to its Judge an answer making.

13. Ják, Hungary: Romanesque church

14. Semicircular arches

15. Piers

16. Openings/Doors and Windows

19. Gothic cathedrals - heavenward

20. Pointed arches

21. Windows

22. Ribbed Vaults

23. Flying Buttresses

25. Monks and monasteries

26. Pagan Heroes: Beowulf (England, 6-10th c.)

27. Courtly love knights and women

28. Jousts, tournaments

29. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – The Holy Grail

30. Arthur (top centre) in an illustration to the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, late 14th centuryMiddle EnglishSir Gawain and the Green Knight King Arthur Queen Guinevre Sir Launcelot Merlin, the wizard Sir Gawain Sir Galahad Mordred Morgan Le Fay Welsh, French, English and Latin works

31. Medieval pragmatism – the grotesque and humour

32. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere Manuscript (early 15th c.)

33. Francois Villon: QUATRAIN THAT VILLON MADE WHEN HE WAS DOOMED TO DIE I'M Francis ill avails it me Born near Pontoise, in Paris see : Whose neck, at the end of a rope of three, Must feel how heavy my buttocks be.