Answer one question from each list. For each question, write a thoughtful essay of three to four pages (typed and double-spaced). A successful essay will contain a clear thesis statement and make effective use of the assigned primary sources as evidence, showing awareness of both change and continuity in historical developments. Be sure to cite your sources.
List A:
1. Should we view the “Dark Ages” of the ninth and tenth centuries more as a time of destruction or of creativity?
2. What was the most important element in the stabilization of European life during the High Middle Ages?
3. How did the “Renaissance of the Twelfth Century” impact European intellectual life during the High Middle Ages?
List B:
1. What was the most significant consequence of the Crusades during the High Middle Ages?
2. Why were disputes between ecclesiastical and secular leaders so persistent during the High Middle Ages?
3. What was the most important element of Europe’s late-medieval crisis?
Please use these book to answet the questions
Abelard, Peter. Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes. Henry Adams
Bellows, trans. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1922. Available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435009021759&seq=1.
Andrea, Alfred J. The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History (Second
Revised Edition). Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing Company, 2020.
The Book of Margery Kempe. Anthony Bale, trans. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2015.
Einhard. The Life of Charlemagne. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
