final Flashcards
Clovis
The First King o the Franks to unite all of the Frankish Tribes under one ruler.
St. Benedict
Founder of the Benedictine Monastery at Monte Cassino and father of Western Monaticism
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
Charlamagne
King o the Franks, Lomards, and Emporer of the Romans. Expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire
Hegira
Muhammad’s departure from Mecca to Medina in AD 622, prompted by the opposition of the merchants of Mecca and marking the consolidation of the first Muslim community.
Feudal System
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries
Manorial System
Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society. It was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the Roman villa system of the Late Roman Empire, and was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe.
Cluny Monastic Reforms
The Cluniac Reforms (also called the Benedictine Reform) were a series of changes within medieval monasticism of the Western Church focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor.
Cistercian order
A Cistercian is a member of the Cistercian Order, a religious order of monks and nuns.
Chivalric Romance
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Gothic Catherdreals
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China, as well as in Russia.
Magna Carta
Following further discussions with the barons and clerics led by Archbishop Langton, King John granted the Charter of Liberties, subsequently known as Magna Carta
Franciscan Friars
The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi.
Scholastic Philosophy
Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100 to 1700