Ch.5 The Early Medieval World Flashcards
The days of the week are derived from the names of _____________.
Saxon gods
Tuesday-
Tiw
Wednesday-
Woden
Thursday-
Thor
Friday-
Frigg, Wooden Wife
The saxon word bury can be translated as _______
¨fort¨
The Saxon word chester can be translated as _________
¨camp¨
________ were free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres
Churls
Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the wergeld, or ____________________________.
“life-price” of an individual
The epic poem, ___________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.
Beowulf
One of its most notable literary features, common to Old English literature, is its reliance on compound phrases, or ____________, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing.
kennings
Around 563, an Irish monk, __________, founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona.
Columba
____________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.
Augustine
Bishop Eadfrith designed the _________________.
Lindisfarne Gospels
The first Celtic cross was made by ___________ who made the mark of a Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument.
St. Patrick
On Christmas day, 800 CE, ______________________ crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Pope Leo III
________________ was made from the ivory of an elephants tusk
Roland´s horn
The strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of:
-Courage in battle
-Loyalty to his lord and peers
-A courtesy verging on reverence toward women
The rule of _________________ was imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne´s Frankish kingdom
Benedict of Nursia
The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the ________________.
refectory
___________, abbess of Whitby, ran one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries, a community of both monks and nuns
Hilda
A ________ refers to a musical note used in Gregorian chants
neum
The _________________ documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066
Bayeux Tapestry
____________________ resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a complete survey of England so that he could more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to provide a new army
The Domesday Book
___________ claimed as its relic the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Chartres
________ claimed as its relic the bones of Mary Magdalene
Vezelay
The ____________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder
barrel vault
The _____________ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church
voussoir
The ____________ refers to an almond-shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists
mandorla
The translation for ____________ is the reminder of death
memento mor
__________________ was the author of On the Misery of the Human Condition, whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church.
Pope Innocent III
_______________ is often credited with the developing one of the first effective systems of musical notation a method which used the letters A through G to name the seven notes of the Western scale
Odo of Cluny
_________________ introduced the idea of depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line
Guido of Arezzo
___________ manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in its becoming one of the most powerful city-states in the eastern Mediterranean
Venice
In the decade that she lived at Poitiers, _____________________, countess of Champagne, established that city as the center of a secular culture and literary movement that celebrated the art of courtly love
Eleanor and her daughte
______________ composed “Cruel art the pains I’ve suffered”
Beatriz de Dia
_________________ composed Lancelot, which centered on the adventures of a knight in King Arthur’s court
Chretien de Troyes
Lancelot is considered an example of the ___________________________.
“medieval romance”
