The dark ages

Romanized south vs. north

western europe left fragmented linguistically and politically

clear differences between the south-spain, italy and southern francia and the north

interaction between the two as many traverlers pilgrims went between places like rome and the british isles

The rural north

yeavering (england)

• first occupied and used as burial sites which then became the royal estate of the king of the northern kingdom of bernicia

• normally constructed in clusters of four or five and formed a hamlet

paris:

• mix of churches, 35 packed into abandoned city

• in countryside peasants tended to plots of land owned by aristocrats

urbanish south:

• closer to the mediteranean

• diminished populations, still contained roman ampitheathers

• peasants often were land holders themselves, not aristocrats

Merovingian Francia