Exam 3

Question 1

What were the scholastics interested in discovering?

Answer 1

The unity of truth- God’s truth about the eternity of the human soul

• how all truths once learned would be in harmony with each other
• make sense of all philosophy, science, medicine, law and intellectual fields

Question 2

In what sense are Mystics the opposite of scholastics

Answer 2

They do not believe in rational order.
Believe in God and the feelings of his spirit.
Focus on the feeling and experience over understanding the meeting
Scholastics believe the opposite

Question 3

What tasks did the mendicant order preform?

Answer 3

The Franciscans begged for alms and food and donated them to the poor. They preached love and forgiveness.
The Dominicans established schools and preached tirelessly. Aided church’s and tried to stop heresy by spreading the Christian truth and the inquisition.

Question 4

What needs drove monarchies in late medieval times to establish representative bodies

Answer 4

Needed tax revenue and control over their citizens. Kings taxed commoners and the commoners wanted a say so it was a compromise. Voice in policy for paying taxes. Gave control over economic sectors and more power over citizens to the Monarchs

Question 5

What does the cart symbolize in Lancelot the knight of the cart?

Answer 5

The cart symbolize humiliation and change as well as his commitment to finding Guinevere

Question 6

What does the sword bridge symbolize in Lancelot the knight of the cart

Answer 6

Determination, the hard but sure way, bravery, fear, challenges and trust in God.

Question 7

What does Lancelot think is the reason Guinevere has rejected him after he obtained her release

Answer 7

Because he humiliated and shamed himself by getting into the cart while trying to rescue her.

Question 8

What is the true reason Guinevere rejected Lancelot

Answer 8

He hesitated to get into the cart and to humiliate and shame himself, by hesitating to get in he hesitated in his love for her

Question 9

What is the moral of Lancelot the Knights cart

Answer 9

Love conquers all and perfect lovers over come everything

Question 10

What are two arguments the lover makes that the women should, carry on a love affair with him?

Answer 10

1.) love cannot flourish between married people because there is only expectations and roles

2.) being away from each other and embracing only in secret creates jealousy and increases their true
Love

Question 11

What are two arguments that the women makes as to why she shouldn’t have an affair with the man

Answer 11

1. ) she is happily married and loves her husband

2. jealousy is loathsome and if they are away from each other they will never really know and love each other

Question 12

What factors diminished the power of the papacy after 1300

Answer 12

The pope lived in France away from church. The leader was secluded away and did not interact with Christian life for years.
Science took off as did mysticism
Violent practices by the church against heretics and Jews turned people away
End of crusades
Rise of monarchies
Plague-loss of personal turn to private religion

Question 13

What was the change in the way war was fought as described in the battle of crecy

Answer 13

War was fought in small raiding parties rather than large battles. Those fighting identified as a part of a nation and fighting for a nation.
Strategy and tactic over strength and numbers

Question 14

What are two important historical consequences of the Black Death

Answer 14

Led to the rise of industrialization. Agriculture dropped, prices fell, labor demands went up in the city because of the scarcity of good allowing the industrial people to demand higher wages.

Set the Renaissance back from happening for years until Europe recovered.

Question 15

What real,y baffles Petrarch about the Black Death? What is his state of mind after losing so many friends?

Answer 15

Petrarch is baffled as the why God is punishing them with the Black Death. They are not the worst human kind has seen so why them? Petrarch is distraught and going crazy because everybody around him is dining and there is nothing her can do.

Question 16

According to Boccaccio what method of surviving the plague works best?

Answer 16

Avoidance. Get say fast and get far away and hope it doesn’t follow. But this is also very cowardly, selfish, callous, and ill advised because you either love or die alone like an animal. You would die in a worse way than if you had stayed in the city.

Question 17

What is a similarity between the explain actions of mussis and Conrad

Answer 17

God is almighty and his actions are not to be questioned

Question 18

What is a difference between mussis and Conrad

Answer 18

Conrad believes the plague came from vapors released in earthquakes while mussis believes God sent it in anger as a punishment for heresy and sinners

Question 19

What reasons does Conrad have that the cause of the plague is fumes

Answer 19

Moves like it is carried by wind in the air as vapors would be
Deadly vapors have been known to come from the earth and kill people
Earthquakes happened where the illness began

Question 20

What crimes is Joan accused of?

Answer 20

Allowing herself to be adored and venerated, practicing witchcraft, superstitions, heresy, consorting with demons and guiding others to do it. Dressing as a man and defying God.

Question 21

What is one argument that the Renaissance is the emergence of a new era

Answer 21

The arise of humanism and the new outlook of people and their role in society.

• development of human potential and the inherent dignity of people, value of the particular, freedom of choice, and appreciation of small things.
• humanism changed the way life was lived

Question 22

What defines humanism

Answer 22

Celebration of small specific pleasure
Focus on the particular
Dignity of all humans
Freedom of choice
Universal human potential

Question 23

What feature of the Italian economic and social life helped fuel the Renaissance

Answer 23

Economic- locations of rich nobles. Lived in cities and controlled the city states. Nobles hoarded the wealth so labor cost went back down and public works programs became a thing. Nobles were patrons to artists and scholars so they could prove themselves better than other nobles

Social- cult of patronage allowed more people to successfully be artists and intellectuals. The revival of humanism directed people to seek out the particular and to develops their true potential. Classicism and Christianity fueled the art scene and were themes for many masterpieces and infrastructure

Question 24

In what ways is Christian humanism like other forms of humanism

Answer 24

Rejected scholastic system building and it looked to the past-old testament- as a model for thinking and behavior. Both reformist

Question 25

In what ways is Christian humanism different from regular humanism

Answer 25

Focus was on God and becoming a better Christian rather than just becoming a better individual. Looked toward a different-Christian- future

Question 26

Describe the saint Chappell

Answer 26

1248 Gothic style
High windows with arched dome like ceilings
Lots of windows and light

Question 27

Describe the Chartres

Answer 27

1220 gothic style

Stained glass windows depicting biblical stories

Question 28

Describe Traini’s triumph of death

Answer 28

1350 early Renaissance

People on horseback finding a casket in the woods

Question 29

Describe the Michelangelo’s David

Answer 29

1501 Renaissance

White marble statue of a naked David

Question 30

Describe DaVinci’s Madonna on the rocks

Answer 30

1480 Renaissance style

Woman with two children on some rocks in nature

Question 31

Why is courtly love not empowering to women

Answer 31

Men are still in charge of everything
Still no power over their own lives
Everything they could possibly achieve is through a man
Must have a man as husband or lover

Question 32

Why is courtly love empowering to women

Answer 32

Gave them some power over men
Control self through having power over their man
Goddess like worship of women
Gave women the power of choice

Question 33

What does Petrarch talk about

Answer 33

How the plague took everybody and they didn’t deserve the wrath God was showing them

Question 34

What does Bioccochio talk about

Answer 34

How people handled the plague

Some stayed in the city, some lived life to the fullest, others ran away like cowards

Question 35

What does mussis talk about?

Answer 35

Plague is gods justice he has sent to the people. Seeing gods wrath

Question 36

What does Konrad talk about

Answer 36

The Jews didn’t poison the wells, stop killing Jews

It wasn’t the planets alignment it is gods wrath for sins and he poisoned our earth with bad vapors

Question 37

What does Louis Sanctus say

Answer 37

Describes the Black Plague as three types of infection

Question 38

What did Jean de vennette say

Answer 38

The cause isn't certain
Could be Jews poisoning the well
Could be gods wrath on wicked people
Could be planetary alignment
Could be vapors

Question 39

What does the medical faculty at the university of Paris say

Answer 39

Plague came from vapors released in earthquakes and spreads through the the air
Vapors came from the planetary alignments which disrupted the seasons and left the people vulnerable to illness

Question 40

What did priest clauser say

Answer 40

Gods wrath is upon us because of heresy and blasphemy regimes like the fleguents

Question 41

What does castinglione say

Answer 41

Art is the pinnacle of highest excellence. And the nature of all other beings is limited. We define our own bounds