German Middle ages

Hildegard von Bingen

Composer, scientist, and poet. Was given to the church when she was six and had spiritual visions.

Minne

means courtly love

Unter Der Linder

about secret love

Pop innocent 3 was known for what

forcing jews to wear pointed hats to humiliate them

The four humors

• blood

• flem

• yellow vile

• black vile

what was hildegards theory on the four humors

that plants could balance these humans when they are off balance

Hippocrates

Greek physician Hippocrates is often credited with developing the
theory of the four humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and
phlegm—and their influence on the body and its emotions.

Galen

Born in Pergamon, Roman physician and philosopher Galen
described in De temperamentis the four temperaments as determined
by a balance of the qualities of hot, cold, moist, and dry. He was
revered as a great clinician.

Walther von der Vogelweide

a composer who wrote love songs and political songs

Süßkind von Trimberg

a german poet the author of the six poems in the Codex Manesse

Carmina Burana / songs from Benediktbeuern

collection of 254 songs and dramatic texts from mostly the 11th and 12 centuries

the song Carmina Burana is about

this wheel of faith that can either help you in life or make you struggle

Nibelungenlied (The Song of the Nibelungs)

a song about a man who dies and his wife seeks vengeanance, leading to the fall of the Germanic Burgundians.

Crusades 11th-13th centuries

christian was over holy land, executions during the fourth crusade

Speyer - worms - mainz

three cities with major jewish communities and religious academics in germany.

Rashi

authored comprehensive commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. he would also let his daughter do a lot of religious things that at the time only men could do.

Torah Cantillation – Tropes
Ashkenaz – Germany / Central Europe

these were chanting ritual reading from the hebrew bible in synagogue services

The middle ages

a period in european history broadly spanning from the fall of western roman empire to the beginning of the renaissance or the rise of the renaissance.

key features of the middle ages

Feudalism, the church, crusades, cultural shifts, dark ages