Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Life in the Middle Ages [ARTICLE]

Life in the Middle Ages

In many ways the coming of the Germanic barbarians into the western Itoman empire meant a setback for orderly government and economic prosperity^ and for art. science, literature and education. After a time, however, the vigorous northerners absorbed the fundamentals of the classical civilization', and on the* basis of a mixture of older and newer elements a political, social and economic system was developed which had a character of its own. The fairest way to look at the Middle ages is first to study its characteristic features such as* feudalism, the unity under the church^ Gothic architecture, serfdom and the manor, and second to notice how these gradually developed into more familiar modern forms; such as national states, national literatures, town life, and a strong middle class. —Chicago Tribune.