Terms

Question 1

Where the inheritance is divided amongst the heirs.

Answer 1

Partible Inheritance

Question 2

Attempt to convert one’s faith. Ex. Spouse

Answer 2

Domestic Prolyselytizaton

Question 3

Monster or giant, descendant of Cain, character in Beowulf.

Answer 3

Grendal

Question 4

Anointing the king with holy oil

Answer 4

Royal Unction

Question 5

First king of the franks

Answer 5

Clovis

Question 6

The mead-hall in Beowulf

Answer 6

Heorot

Question 7

The best of the household, the one with real power.

Answer 7

Mayor of the Palace

Question 8

the King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Emperor of the Romans from 800. He united much of Europe during the early Middle Ages.

Answer 8

Charlemagne

Question 9

a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble

Answer 9

Thane

Question 10

Real kingdom, real state, lead by actual office holder.

Answer 10

Holy Roman Empire

Question 11

successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England

Answer 11

Alfred the Great

Question 12

character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is the son of Weohstan, a Swede of the Wægmunding clan who had entered the service of Beowulf, king of the Geats.

Answer 12

Wiglaf

Question 13

a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.

Answer 13

Guilds

Question 14

makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!

Answer 14

Pope Urban II

Question 15

Song of heroic deeds, genre for Song of Roland

Answer 15

Chason de geste

Question 16

It can refer to academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences

Answer 16

liberal arts

Question 17

the knight who betrayed Charlemagne’s army to the Muslims, leading to the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.

Answer 17

Ganelon

Question 18

a citizen of an English borough, merchants and people with new money at this time

Answer 18

burgher/burgess

Question 19

fighting over control over the iberian peninsula, muslims vs. christians. is the period of history of the Iberian Peninsula

Answer 19

reconquista

Question 20

gallant night

Answer 20

Olyphant

Question 21

Architecture in the church. Created a dome shape.

Answer 21

flying buttress

Question 22

Three field system, better environment, better technology, better life expectancy. People have more time to focus on other things.

Answer 22

Agricultural Revolution

Question 23

The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period

Answer 23

crusades