Chapter 6, 9 Names

Question 1

Monk. First English Christian poet. Retold Bible stories in song.

Answer 1

Caedmon

Question 2

Christian scholar. Wrote a history of English Christianity.

Answer 2

Bede the Venerable

Question 3

“The Apostle of the North.” Missionary of Sweden and Denmark.

Answer 3

Anskar

Question 4

English king. Translated parts of the Bible into English.

Answer 4

Alfred the Great

Question 5

Succeeded Berno as the abbot (leading monk) of Cluny monastery.

Answer 5

Odo

Question 6

Professor of theology until his affair with a student named Heloise. Heloise’s uncle attacked Abelard and had him castrated. Afterward, Abelard retired to a monastery where he wrote several important doctrinal treatises

Answer 6

Peter Abelard

Question 7

Powerful abbot of Clairvaux monastery. In 1128 obtained approval for the Knights Templar, an order of crusader monks based at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Answer 7

Bernard of Clairvaux

Question 8

Franciscan theologian. Francis of Assisi’s biographer.

Answer 8

Bonaventure

Question 9

Scholastic theologian. Applied Aristotle’s philosophy to Christian doctrine. “Angelic Doctor” of Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 9

Thomas Aquinas