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476
THE BEGGINIG OF THE MIDDLE AGE
This period start with the fall of the western roman empire -
500
RISE OF MONASTERIES
The rise of the monasteries is from the sixtieth century to today -
622
ISLAM AND THE RECONQUEST
Islam was born in 622 AD in Arabia and spread rapidly throughout North Africa.
The reconquest lasts from 711 to 1492 -
800
CARLOMAGNO
Promoted a series of reforms of great importance for Europe. It expanded its area of influence throughout much of Western Europe and together with the Church carried out what would become known as the Carolingian Renaissance. -
Period: 800 to 1400
THE SURGE OF THE FEUDALISM
Given its vastness it was difficult to control. These in turn "hired" others, for example gentlemen. These types of relationships were known as vassalage -
1054
EASTERN SCHISM
What maintained the essence of Rome for centuries after its fall was Christianity, represented in the Church, whose primacy was held by the pope in Rome. Christianity, by assuming the classical Greco-Latin tradition, constituted what we know as the European ecumene -
1088
FIRST UNIVERSITIES
Many monastic and cathedral schools are to become the first universities in Europe -
Period: 1337 to 1453
CIVIL WAR
The war would last a total of 116 years, thus spanning much of the Middle Ages. And it would end with the victory of the Valois -
1453
THE BEGGINING OF THE RENAISSANCE
The Modern period started with the fall of the Byzantine empire. -
Nov 12, 1465
CHANSON
The first chansons were for two, three or four voices. At the beginning the norm was three voices, beginning to use four in the 16th century. Sometimes the singers were accompanied by instrumental music. Light, fast, rhythmic, syllabic. They use the binary meter. The melody is in the upper voice. The themes of his texts are varied, although love predominates. The most famous composer of this genre is Clément Janequin. -
1492
THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGE
The discover of America is what makes the end of this period -
Nov 12, 1500
MOTETE
Already at the end of the fourteenth century, although especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth, with the Burgundy School, the motet regained its sacred character, ceased to be poly-textual, and became a continuous composition, on a single text and without cantus firmus. The motet for solo voice appears, with instrumental accompaniment. In the second half of the century, Franco-Flemish composers made the motet as important a genre as the mass. It becomes a choral composition on cantus firmus, -
Period: 1517 to 1546
MARTIN LÚTERO
Theologian and Augustinian Catholic friar who began and promoted the religious reform in Germany and whose teachings were inspired by the Protestant Reformation and the theological and cultural doctrine called Lutheranism. -
Period: 1524 to 1525
GERMAN PEASANTS WAR
Also called the revolution of the common man; It was a popular revolt in the Holy Roman Empire between 1524 and 1525. It consisted, like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite wars, in a series of revolts, both economic and religious, by Catholic peasants, citizens and nobles who they had gone over to Luther's Protestantism. The movement did not have a common program. -
Period: Nov 12, 1567 to
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDIE
Born in Cremona in a humble family. He studied music with the theorist Marco Antonio Ingegner. He was an Italian songwriter, gambist and singer. It marked the transition between the polyphonic and madrigalist tradition of the 16th century and the birth of lyrical drama and opera in the 17th century. He is the most important figure in the transition between the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque. One of his compositions was "The Fable of Orpheus". -
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ILLUSTRATION
European Intellectual and Cultural Movement that mainly developed in France and England, from the end of the 17th century until the beginning of the French Revolution. It was named for dispelling the darkness of humanity through the lights of reason. The 18th century is known, for this reason, as the Age of Enlightenment. -
RENE DESCARTES
He publishes the text called "Discourse of the Method", and initiates the rational philosophy, enlightened ideal (Rationalism). -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Compositor alemán. Considerado por muchos como el más grande compositor de todos los tiempos, Johann Sebastian Bach nació en el seno de una dinastía de músicos e intérpretes que desempeñó un papel determinante en la música alemana durante cerca de dos siglos y cuya primera mención documentada se remonta a 1561. -
ISAAC NEWTON
He publishes the text of the "Mathematic Principle", where he systematizes science. -
GLORIUS REVOLUTION
It took place in England in the year 1688 and since then meant a limit to the monarchical power in that country but also the beginning of the reeling in many other countries that took this event as an example. -
VOLTAIRE
He was a French writer, historian, philosopher and lawyer, who belonged to Freemasonry and is one of the main representatives of the Enlightenment, a period that emphasized the power of human reason, science and respect for humanity. In 1746 Voltaire was elected a member of the French Academy in which he occupied the 33rd seat. -
MONTESQUIEU "THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS"
He was a French philosopher and jurist whose work takes place in the context of the intellectual and cultural movement known as the Enlightenment.
He was one of the most relevant illustrated philosophers and essayists, especially for the articulation of the theory of the separation of powers, which has been introduced in some constitutions of several States, with greater influence in the Constitution of the United States, -
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Publication that I collect and organize the knowledge of the time. -
ADAM SMITH
He publishes the book "The Wealth of Nations" and is considered the first book of Modern Economics. -
THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE
Ended with the French Revolution.