Chapter 5 Flashcards
Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the _____, or “_____” of an individual.
wergeld
life-price
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 _____, or _____, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing.
its reliance on compound phrases
kennings
Around 563, an Irish monk, _____, founded a monastery on the Scottish island of _____.
Columba
Iona
Augustine is credited with building a cathedral at _____ and a church dedicated to _____ in _____.
Canterbury
St. Paul
London
Bishop Eadfrith designed the _____ Gospels.
Lindisfarne
The first Celtic cross was made by St. Patrick who made the mark of _____ through the _____ on _____.
a Latin cross
circle
an ancient standing stone monument
On Christmas day, 800 CE, _____ crowned _____ emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Pope Leo III
Charlemagne
Roland’s horn was made from the _____ of _____.
ivory
an elephants tusk
The strict and unwritten code of conduct that hooded 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 _____ kingdom.
Benedict of Nursia
Frankish
The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the _____.
refectory
___, _____, ran one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries, a community of both monks and nuns
Hilda
abbess of Whiteby
A _____ refers to a musical note used in Gregorian chants.
neum
_____ documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Domesday Book resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a _____ so that he could more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to _____
complete survey of England
provide a new army
_____ claimed as its relic the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Chartres
The days of the week are derived from the names of _____ gods:
Tuesday-_____
Wednesday-_____
Thursday-_____
Friday-_____
saxon
tiw
woden
thor
frigg, woden 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
_____ 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-shape oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists
mandorla
Pope Innocent III was the author of _____, whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church.
On the Misery of the Human Condition
The translation for _____ is the reminder of death.
memento mori
_____ is often credited with developing one of the first effective systems of musical notation a method which used the letters __ through __ to name the seven notes of the Western scale.
Odo of Cluny
A
G
_____ introduced the idea of depicting notes on a stagg of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line
Guido of Arezzo
_____ manipulated the _____ Crusade to its advantage, resulting in its becoming one of the most powerful city-states in the easter Mediterranean
Venice
Fourth
In the decade that she lived at _____, Eleanor and her daughter, countess of Champagne, established that city as the center of a _____ culture and _____ movement that celebrated the art of _____
Poitiers
secular
literary
courtly love
_____ composed “Cruel art the pains I’ve suffered”.
Beatriz de Dia
Chretien de Troys composed _____, which centered on the adventures of ______
Lancelot
a knight in king Authur’s court.
_____ is considered an example of the “medieval romance”.
Lancelot
