Exam 3 Flashcards
What were the scholastics interested in discovering?
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
In what sense are Mystics the opposite of scholastics
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
What tasks did the mendicant order preform?
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.
What needs drove monarchies in late medieval times to establish representative bodies
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
What does the cart symbolize in Lancelot the knight of the cart?
The cart symbolize humiliation and change as well as his commitment to finding Guinevere
What does the sword bridge symbolize in Lancelot the knight of the cart
Determination, the hard but sure way, bravery, fear, challenges and trust in God.
What does Lancelot think is the reason Guinevere has rejected him after he obtained her release
Because he humiliated and shamed himself by getting into the cart while trying to rescue her.
What is the true reason Guinevere rejected Lancelot
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
What is the moral of Lancelot the Knights cart
Love conquers all and perfect lovers over come everything
What are two arguments the lover makes that the women should, carry on a love affair with him?
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
What are two arguments that the women makes as to why she shouldn’t have an affair with the man
- ) 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
What factors diminished the power of the papacy after 1300
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
What was the change in the way war was fought as described in the battle of crecy
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
What are two important historical consequences of the Black Death
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.
What real,y baffles Petrarch about the Black Death? What is his state of mind after losing so many friends?
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.
According to Boccaccio what method of surviving the plague works best?
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.
What is a similarity between the explain actions of mussis and Conrad
God is almighty and his actions are not to be questioned
What is a difference between mussis and Conrad
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
What reasons does Conrad have that the cause of the plague is fumes
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
What crimes is Joan accused of?
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.
What is one argument that the Renaissance is the emergence of a new era
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
What defines humanism
Celebration of small specific pleasure Focus on the particular Dignity of all humans Freedom of choice Universal human potential
What feature of the Italian economic and social life helped fuel the Renaissance
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
In what ways is Christian humanism like other forms of humanism
Rejected scholastic system building and it looked to the past-old testament- as a model for thinking and behavior. Both reformist
