Medival Times

The study of humanities allows us to explore the ways ub which the changing concepts of nature and the individual differ in each historical period and helps us to charachterize the important developments if each period. Examining specific works of the middle ages enables us to descibe our view of the changes that occur and helps to explain how and why the concepts evolved the way they did. The Middle Ages provided a uniqe chapter in the history of the humanistic tradition.

The earlt Middle Ages occured between the 5th and 10th centuries and brought with it three traditions that were interwoven to produce the enthusiastic new culture of the medieval West. These trditions were classical, Christian, and Germanic. The Germanic tribal people, who followed a migratory existence, blended with those of classical Rome and Western Christianity to forge the basic economic, social, and cultural patterns of medeival life (Fiero p.67). The Germanic people were made up of Ostrogoths, Visogoths, Franks, Vandals, Burgandians, Angles and Saxons. The Early Middle Ages are characterized by the urban control of bishops and territorial control exercised by dukes and counts (Wikipidia, 2005). The important developments in the humnaities that charaterized the Early Middle Ages perios are the feudal and manorial traditions that established patterns of class and social status, which came to shape the economic and political history of the West (Fiero p.67). The general idea was that a man would offer the landlord protection for his rights to live on his land. The peasants had little or no chance of owning land. The manorial tradition was between the landowner and those who lived on and worled the land, who were the peasants and serfs, In return for the protection of the lord and his army., peasants and serfs gave up all chance of economic bettermant and virtually all freedom to run into the castle walls of the lord.