Humanities Early Medieval World Flashcards
The days of the week were derived from the names of the ___________
Saxon gods
Tuesday
Tiw
Wednesday
Woden
Thursday
Thor
Friday
Frigg, Woden wife
The Saxon word ______ can be translated as “fort”
bury
The Saxon word __________ can be translated as “camp”
chester
Free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres
Churls
Anglo Saxon law was based on ________ or “life-price” of an individual.
wergeld
The epic poem, __________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.
Beowulf
One of its most notable literary features, common to Old English literature, is its reliance on compound phrases, or __________, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing.
kennings
Around 563, an Irish monk, __________, founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona.
Columba
_____________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.
Augustine
_________________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Bishop Eadfrith
The first Celtic cross was made by ________ who made the ark of a Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument.
St. Patrick
On Christmas day, 800 CE, _____________ crowned _____________ emperor of the Roman Empire.
Pope Leo III, Charlemagne
____________ was made from the ivory of an elephant’s tusk.
Roland’s horn
The strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of:
courage of battle
loyalty to his lord and peers
a courtesy verging on reverence towards women
The rule of _____________ was imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne’s Frankish kingdom.
Benedict of Nursia
The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the ____________.
refectory
________, abbess of Whitby, ran one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries, a community of both monks and nuns.
Hilda
A ______ refers to a musical note used in Gregotian chants.
neum
The _____________ documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
Bayeux Tapestry
The __________ resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a complete survey of England so that he could more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to provide a new army.
Domesday Book
_____________ claimed as its relic the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ.
Chartres
___________ claimed as its relic the bones of Mary Magdalene.
Vezelay
The _______________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space shaped like a half cylinder.
barrel vault
The ___________ refers to wedge shaped stones that form the arch in the Romanesque church.
voussoir
The ____________ refers to an almond shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists.
mandalora
________________ was the author of On the Misery of the Human Condition, whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church.
Pope Innocent II
The translation for_________________ is the reminder of death.
memento mori
_____________ is often credited with developing one of the first effective systems of music notation, a method which used the letters A through G to name the seven notes of the Western scale.
Odo of Cluny
____________________ introduced the idea of depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line.
Guido of Arezzo
__________ manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in its becoming one of the most powerful city-states in the eastern Mediterranean.
Venice
In the decade that she lived at Poitiers, ____________________, countess of ________________, established that city as the center of secular culture and literary movement that celebrated that art of courtly love.
Eleanor and her daughter, Champagne
_________________ composed “Cruel art the pains I’ve suffered.”
Beatriz de dia
___________________ composed Lancelot, which centered on the adventures of a knight in King Arthur’s court.
Chretien de Troyes
_______________ is considered an example of the “medieval romance.”
Lancelot
