King Charlemagne, the 1st Frankish

Holy Roman Emperor, was crowned on

Christmas day 800.
Carolingian from Carolus, Medieval
Latin form of the name Charles Latin.

Romanesque Architecture
The architectural style of Medieval Europe

Period: 1000 AD
Place: Western Europe
The decline of Rome and
beginning of the Dark Ages.

the

In 475, the Roman Empire in the west

war already banished.
In 476, the barbarians occupied
Rome.
ROMANESQUE BLDG. TYPES:
Churches
Castles
Monasteries
Fortified towns
Term for Romanesque
Norman Romanesque in Britain
Ottonian Romanesque in Germany
MEDIEVAL SOCIETY:
Land-owning lords and knights
Peasants and laborers
Monks and priests

He encourage the building of

churches and monasteries using
masonry.
THE CRUSADES
1095 1270

Crusades were a series of religious

sanctioned military campaigns waged
by much of the western Christian
Europe.
Particularly the Franks of France and
the Holy Roman Empire.
The specific crusades to restore
Christian control of the Holy Land were
fought over a period of nearly 200
years, between 1095 and 1291.
The Crusades originally had the goal
of recapturing Jerusalem and the holy
land for Muslim rule and their
campaign