Ch.5 The Early Medieval World

Question 1

The days of the week are derived from the names of _____________.

Answer 1

Saxon gods

Question 2

Tuesday-

Answer 2

Tiw

Question 3

Wednesday-

Answer 3

Woden

Question 4

Thursday-

Answer 4

Thor

Question 5

Friday-

Answer 5

Frigg, Wooden Wife

Question 6

The saxon word bury can be translated as _______

Answer 6

¨fort¨

Question 7

The Saxon word chester can be translated as _________

Answer 7

¨camp¨

Question 8

________ were free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres

Answer 8

Churls

Question 9

Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the wergeld, or ____________________________.

Answer 9

“life-price” of an individual

Question 10

The epic poem, ___________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.

Answer 10

Beowulf

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

kennings

Question 12

Around 563, an Irish monk, __________, founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona.

Answer 12

Columba

Question 13

____________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.

Answer 13

Augustine

Question 14

Bishop Eadfrith designed the _________________.

Answer 14

Lindisfarne Gospels

Question 15

The first Celtic cross was made by ___________ who made the mark of a Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument.

Answer 15

St. Patrick

Question 16

On Christmas day, 800 CE, ______________________ crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Answer 16

Pope Leo III

Question 17

________________ was made from the ivory of an elephants tusk

Answer 17

Roland´s horn

Question 18

The strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of:

Answer 18

-Courage in battle
-Loyalty to his lord and peers
-A courtesy verging on reverence toward women

Question 19

The rule of _________________ was imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne´s Frankish kingdom

Answer 19

Benedict of Nursia

Question 20

The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the ________________.

Answer 20

refectory

Question 21

___________, abbess of Whitby, ran one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries, a community of both monks and nuns

Answer 21

Hilda

Question 22

A ________ refers to a musical note used in Gregorian chants

Answer 22

neum

Question 23

The _________________ documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066

Answer 23

Bayeux Tapestry

Question 24

____________________ 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

Answer 24

The Domesday Book

Question 25

___________ claimed as its relic the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ

Answer 25

Chartres

Question 26

________ claimed as its relic the bones of Mary Magdalene

Answer 26

Vezelay

Question 27

The ____________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder

Answer 27

barrel vault

Question 28

The _____________ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church

Answer 28

voussoir

Question 29

The ____________ refers to an almond-shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists

Answer 29

mandorla

Question 30

The translation for ____________ is the reminder of death

Answer 30

memento mor

Question 31

__________________ was the author of On the Misery of the Human Condition, whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church.

Answer 31

Pope Innocent III

Question 32

_______________ 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

Answer 32

Odo of Cluny

Question 33

_________________ introduced the idea of depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line

Answer 33

Guido of Arezzo

Question 34

___________ manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in its becoming one of the most powerful city-states in the eastern Mediterranean

Answer 34

Venice

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Eleanor and her daughte

Question 36

______________ composed “Cruel art the pains I’ve suffered”

Answer 36

Beatriz de Dia

Question 37

_________________ composed Lancelot, which centered on the adventures of a knight in King Arthur’s court

Answer 37

Chretien de Troyes

Question 38

Lancelot is considered an example of the ___________________________.

Answer 38

“medieval romance”