Chapter 13: Kingdoms, Churches, and Change in the Later Medieval World
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Printed chapter: pages 78-85. Complete connected chart: pages 98–145. These page references match the reviewed manuscript.
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Choose a king, city, or book from the selected details. Write 40-60 words identifying the subject, one checked event date, the relevant source, and any needed correction to Adams’ caption. A partner should be able to find the original detail and explain what the date measures.
Find the detail on the chart, identify what each number measures, and record the source used for your explanation.
Practice questions and explained answers
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1. What two events connect William with 1066?
Conquest at Hastings and coronation as king of England. A single year can contain distinct milestones.
2. How was Magna Carta authenticated in 1215?
By King John’s great seal. Do not replace sealing with an unsupported modern image of a handwritten signature.
3. Why distinguish the two uses of schism?
The 1054 setting concerns the eastern-western church division; the Western Schism of 1378-1417 involves rival papal claimants. They are different crises.
4. Match 1204, 1261, and 1453 to Constantinople.
The Crusader sack, Byzantine recovery, and Ottoman conquest. These are changes in the city’s rule, not one uninterrupted reign.
5. What needs correction in the Genghis Khan religious note?
His conquests should not be explained as a campaign to spread Islam. Different Mongol rulers had different religious affiliations; later conversions cannot be projected onto him.
6. Why is Gutenberg not the first printing anywhere?
Earlier printing existed in Asia. His work needs its European setting and particular printing technology; an unqualified global first is inaccurate.
Complete connected chart
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Sources to consult
These are the chapter’s source references, not quotations from those works. Use the named title, institution, record number, or passage to locate the source. Some external sources may have access restrictions.
- English Heritage, “1066 and the Norman Conquest” and “History of Battle Abbey and Battlefield.”
- The National Archives, “Magna Carta,” C 66/14; “Magna Carta, 1215,” British Library translation. UK Parliament, “The Making of Magna Carta” and “Magna Carta.”
- Fordham University, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, accounts of Urban II’s speech at Clermont; Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Crusades (1095-1291).”
- Joint Catholic-Orthodox Declaration of Paul VI and Athenagoras I, 7 December 1965, Vatican. Nelson H. Minnich, “Great Western Schism (1378-1417),” Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences. Sarah T. Brooks, “Byzantium (ca. 330-1453),” Metropolitan Museum of Art. Byzantine and Christian Museum, “The Fall of Constantinople.” Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade, translated Frank T. Marzials, 1908, Fordham Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
- British Museum, “Mongol,” collection authority x23190. Qamar Adamjee and Stefano Carboni, “The Religious Arts under the Ilkhanids,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Columbia University, Asia for Educators, “A Tactic of Religious Tolerance.”
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, “China, 1000-1400 A.D.” and “Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China’s Age of Brilliance,” 2009. Princeton University Art Museum, object 1998-75 a-j.
- The National Archives, “Plague,” including the Statute of Labourers (1351), C 74/1. London Museum, “The Great Pestilence in London.”
- Historial Jeanne d’Arc, Rouen, educational dossier chronology. Cité Royale de Loches, “Joan of Arc.”
- British Library, Egerton MS 617-618. Lincoln College, Oxford, “Lincoln’s Rare Wycliffite Bible Digitised.” Elizabeth Solopova, introduction to Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries, 2016.
- Museum of the Bible, Wycliffite New Testament, BIB.005034, 1731. Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible in the Earliest English Versions, 1850.
- Library of Congress, Bible Collection, “The Gutenberg Bible.” Bibliothèque nationale de France, “Printing! Gutenberg’s Europe.”
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