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    From the late 12th century, cities grew in western Europe and a new social class, the bourgeoisie, emerged. Cities were ruled by magistrates and wealthy merchant families. Trade increased during this time period as travel became safer and large fairs and trade routes developed, allowing merchants like Marco Polo to travel long distances. Gothic architecture featured pointed arches, rib vaulting, rose windows, buttresses, and sculptures and paintings often depicted religious themes in a realistic style.

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    From the late 12th century, cities grew in western Europe and a new social class, the bourgeoisie, emerged. Cities were ruled by magistrates and wealthy merchant families. Trade increased during this time period as travel became safer and large fairs and trade routes developed, allowing merchants like Marco Polo to travel long distances. Gothic architecture featured pointed arches, rib vaulting, rose windows, buttresses, and sculptures and paintings often depicted religious themes in a realistic style.

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    UNIT 9 Medieval Cities & Gothic

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    MEDIEVAL CITIES

    & GOTHIC
    1. the cities

    From the late 12th century an improvement in economic


    conditions and development of urban life had a great impact on
    western European culture. The culture throughout the 12th to
    15th is linked to cities.

    A new social group emerged: the bourgeoisie. They were


    artisans and traders who lived in the cities and they didn't have a
    lord; the were divided into the high bourgeoisie (merchants and
    traders) and the petty bourgeoisie (artisans and traders). In the
    cities there were also the jews who lived in separated
    neighbourhoods.

    The cities had a magistrate who ruled the city (he was chosen).
    The richest families of merchants and bankers were the privileged
    group (the urban patricians).
    2. trade

    From the 12th century travelling was safer and


    traders met at the great fairs (periodical large
    markets)

    There were also trade routes. Merchant, especially


    those from Venice and Genoa, travelled long
    distances to the lands of the east. The most famous
    journey was made in the 13th by Marco Polo, who
    followed the Silk Road as far as China, and he wrote
    the Book of the Marvels of the World.
    THE BLACK DEATH

    1. What was the Black Death?

    2. What were the symptoms?

    3. What happened with the population of Europe?


    3. gothic architecture

    Higher, brighter and more complex buildings


    Pointed arches
    Ribbed vaulting (intersection of 2 pointed
    arches that were supported by four support
    columns)
    Stainded glass and rose windows
    Buttresses and flying buttresses
    Three doors for three naves
    Gables (galleries with decoration)
    Pinnacles on the top of the buttresses
    4. gothic sculpture

    It was used for decoration


    Altarpieces and sepulchers
    Freestanding sculptures
    Religious themes and portraits of kings and nobles
    Realistic features, faced expressed feelings, less
    rigid
    Sculptured weren't isolated figured, there is an
    interaction with other sculptures
    S curve (sense of movement)
    In the themes of Jesus and the Virgin there are
    interaction between them son-mother
    5. gothic painting

    In gothic churches walls were replaced by large


    windows, so this reduced he space for fresco paintings
    and panel painting (altarpieces) became more
    common: diptych, triptych and polyptych
    Miniature illustrations in books and codices were
    perfected
    Religious themes, but sometimes there are scenes
    of everyday life, landscapes and cities
    Natural and realistic, expression of emotions

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