Summer Exam Accounts Flashcards
Life of a monk
When a boy joins a monastery he was called a novice, this is where he learns the rules and sees if the life suits him. If the abbot thinks he’ll be a good monk he lets him take the solemn vows. These are promises of poverty,chastity and obedience. Then his hair was cut in a tonsure. This showed that he was a monk.
The lord of the castle
The lord was the most important person in the castle along with his family, they lived in the keep. The castle and the land around it belonged to him. Most lords didn’t need to read or write because they kept a priest to do that for them. The lord wore a long tunic and had pointy leather shoes. The lord had three types of soldiers, Foot soldiers,archers and knights.
Farming in celtic Ireland
Cattle ,sheep and pigs were kept on a farm and were later killed for their meat and skins(usually killed in autumn). Under Brehon laws wealth was measured in cattle. The Celts cooked meat on spits or in huge pots over fires. Crops such as wheat,barley and oats were grown. Barley was used to make a drink like ale,porridge from oats and wheat was ground into flour using a rotatory stone. The flour was then made into bread.
Science
Anatomy-Middle ages-herbal medicine, ideas based on Galens discoveries,church against cutting up of bodies (1300).
Renaissance- Vesalius started cutting up bodies, has 270 drawings of every part of the human body. Harvey came up with the circulation of blood.
Astronomy
Middle ages-earth was centre of the universe and everything evolved around it.
Renaissance- Copernicus showed the earth revolved around the sun.
Galileo- law of falling bodies,telescope,catholic church bans Galileo.
Sculptor
Middle ages-part of buildings,not lifelike.
Renaissance-stood alone, more realistic,nude
Michelangelo(1475)- made the pieta (Jesus in Mary’s arms) made of white marble. Pope Julius II asks Michelangelo to paint frescos on the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel that took four years.
Architecture Gothic style. Renaissance style Spires. Domes Less symmetry. More symmetry Pointed arches. Round arches Flying buttresses. Pediments and columns
