Key Words Flashcards

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What is Superstition?

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A belief, not based on knowledge, but on the supernatural. For example, witchcraft or astrology

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What’s mass?

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Public worship in the Roman Catholic Church

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3
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What’s Astrology?

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Study of the planets and their effect on humans

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What’s a vandemecum?

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A medieval book carried by doctors

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What’s a urine chart?

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Used to examine urine to define an illness.

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What’s a dissection?

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To cut open a human and examine the insides

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What’s an epidemic?

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A widespread outbreak of disease

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What’s the Black Death?

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A term used to describe the bubonic plague

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What is a monastery?

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A building where monks live, eat and pray.

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10
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When was medieval Britain?

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1250-1500

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One of the most powerful influences during the Middle Ages was…

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The church. It affected everything, education, medicine, attitudes, beliefs etc

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What’s a rational idea?

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An idea based on observations of the natural world e.g. the theory of the four humours

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What’s a supernatural idea?

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An idea unable to be explained by science or the laws of nature e.g. tests of faith from God

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What were the four humours?

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yellow and black bile, phlegm, blood
(Hot dry cold wet)
(Fire earth water air)
(Summer autumn winter spring)
Associated with astrology
Must have equal amount of each

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15
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What’s flagellation?

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Whipping themselves in public and asking god for forgiveness

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