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- Where were some of the first universities?
- Salerno and Bologna
- Describe some characteristics of Romanesque churches.
- Looked like fortresses with thick walls/towers. Roof was a barrel vault, a long tunnel of stone covering the main part. No windows or tiny slits of windows; dark and gloomy interior.
- Gothic architecture was the new style for church building starting in the 12th century. Where have we seen the word Goth before?
- Visigoths!
- How did Thomas Aquinas bring together Christian faith and classican Greek philosophy?
- In Summa Theologica, Aquinas examined Christian teachings in the light of reason, and concluded that faith and reason exist in harmony.
- The Canterbury Tales
- Written by Chaucer. Chaucer follows a band of English pilgrims traveling to Thomas Becket's tomb. Each character in the story tells their own individual story.
- While Latin was the language of scholarship in the Middle Ages, new writing appeared invernaculars. What does this mean?
- Everyday languages of ordinary people
- New Gothic styles were incorporated into paintings and illumination. What is illumination?
- The artistic decoration of books
- How would Gothic cathedrals be different from Romanesque churches?
- They had higher walls and huge stained-glass windows
- Describe The Song of Roland.
- Praises the courage of one of Charlemagne's knights who died while on a military campaign in Muslim Spain. Roland loyally sacrifices his life out of a sense of honor.
- How did exclusion frmo university study seriously affect women's lives?
- They couldn't become doctors, lawyers, church officials or professors, adn they were deprived of the mental stimulation that is an important part of university life
- Why did science make little progress during the later middle ages?
- Most scholars still believed that all true knowledge must fit with Church teachings.
- What would be a key feature oft he Gothic style churches?
- Flying buttresses
- Where did the first universities/academic guilds evolve from?
- Cathedrals that trained clergy
- What will the towns ignite?
- The cultural flowering of the High Middle Ages
- Artists created sculptures and stained for the new Gothic cathedrals. How did they help educate the masses at the time?
- Carved scenes from the Bible, images of everyday life, and whimsiical/frightening images of dragons, griffins, and unicorns
- Describe Poem of the Cid.
- Involves battle against Muslim forces. The Cid was Rodrigo Diaz, a bold and firey Christian lord who battledMuslims in Spain.
- How did scholasticism help Christians deal with this problem?
- It used reason to support Christian beliefs
- What changes will be made in mathematics dudring this time?
- Europeans adopted Hindu-Arabic numerals.
- How did the writings of the ancient Greeks pose a challenge to Christian scholars?
- There were often conflicts between faith and reason
- University study during this time stressed the seven liberal arts. List them.
- Geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy, logic, grammar, and rhetoric
- The educational knowledge of the Greek and Roman civilizations had been lost after the fall of Rome. How did many of the works become revived during the later middle ages?
- Muslim scholars translated the works of Aristotle and other Greek thinkers into Arabic, and the texts spread across the Muslim world.
- Few women, like Christine de Pizan, became educated. What type of "natural" pursuits should women of the middle ages be concerned with?
- Raising children, managing the household, and doing needlework
- What happened in the later Middle Ages?
- Food was more plentiful, population grew, trade revived and towns grew.
- What could an education get someone in the middle ages?
- High jobs in the Church or royal government
- The Divine Comedy
- Written by Dante. Takes the reader on an imaginary journey into hell and purgatory, finally including a vision of heaven. It summarizes Christian ethics and highlights the idea that people's actions in life will determine their afterlife.