Chapter 6 - Christendom: Europe in the Age of Faith Flashcards
What was formed by the Catholic Church as the sole body responsible for the election of popes?
The College of Cardinals
Which of the following was a key issue in medieval history between Church and state?
The question of who had supreme authority in Christendom
According to the medieval Catholic Church, the place where souls went to be purified was known as ______
Purgatory
Which of the following is not a subject that Hildegard is credited with writing about?
Cooking
Who was the founder of the Franciscans?
Who was the founder of the Franciscans?
The papal treasury was referred to as the
_____
Camera
Roman Catholic church leaders and monarchs came into conflict over which of the following issues?
Taxation, Selection and ordination of priests and the justice system
According to the Church, what determined whether or not a person’s soul went to heaven?
Conduct on earth
The three types of medieval religious drama include which of the following?
Mystery play, Miracle play and Morality play
Hildegard achieved the rank of
_________ which is the female head of a convent.
Abbess
What landmark epic poem was written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri?
Divine Comedy
What characteristics are true of the Franciscan Order?
Renounced luxury and worked among the people
What area of study was the focus at the university at Bologna?
Law
Thomas Aquinas was a member of the ______ order.
Dominican
Churches used relics to attract what group of people?
Christian pilgrims
The walkway that was formed by extending the side aisles around the transept and behind the apse was known as the ______.
Ambulatory
The western tympanum of many Romanesque churches featured Christ in what role?
Judge
In what northern Italian city was one of the first universities located?
Bologna
What size population was considered when a Gothic cathedral was being built?
All people in town
Aquinas’s major contribution was known as _____
Summa Theologica
What action did pilgrims, who hoped for a healing vision or a miraculous cure, often take?
Sleept near the saint’s tomb
Where did Gothic style originate?
Northern France
Radiating chapels were typically located at which end of a church?
Easten
As they passed through the west portal of many Romanesque churches, Christians were reminded of the inevitability of sin, death, and _____
Judgment
Unlike a Romanesque church, which was typically a rural retreat for monastics and
_________, a Gothic cathedral, was the focus of an entire community.
Pilgrims
What figure dominates the iconography of Chartres?
Virgin Mary
What features are characteristic of medieval paintings?
Gold leaf, Visual hierarchy to denote importance and Tempera
Northern France is the birthplace of the __________
Gothic Style
Where was musical notation invented?
Monasteries
Identify the type of polyphony in which two voices move in contrary motion to each other.
Free organum
The west portal of Chartres is called the ______, showing king’s and queens from the Old Testament and French history.
Royal Portal
The “Dies irae” became part of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead, known as the ______.
Requiem
Which of the following explains one of the main purposes of medieval paintings?
To illustrate medieval manuscripts
Which of the following did Benedictine Guido’s system of musical notation accomplish?
It paved the way for the compositional complexity that characterized medieval music after 1100.
It established a precise means of indicating shifts in pitch.
What characteristics are common to medieval motets?
Polyphony
Melismatic melodies
Multiple texts
Identify a few instruments common in medieval secular music.
Recorder, Psaltery and Tambourine
What features characterize the music of Perotin, such as his piece “Alleluya?”
Organum and Polyphonic
A short, polyphonic choral composition based on a sacred text is known as a(n) ______.
Motet
What aspect was important to the instrumental sound of medieval music?
Timbre
