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the early medieval world (ch. 5) Flashcards

1
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the days of the week are derived from the names of what Saxon gods?

A

Tiw, Woden, Thor, and Frigg

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the days of the week are derived from the names of the Saxon gods: (state day of week they correspond with)

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Tuesday – Tiw
Wednesday – Woden
Thursday – Thor
Friday – Frigg

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the Saxon word “bury” can be translated as what?

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fort

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the Saxon word “chester” can be translated as what?

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camp

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5
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what were free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres?

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churls

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Anglo Saxon law was based on the idea of the what? (or “life price” of an individual)

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wergeld

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What epic poem provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land?

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Beowulf

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One of its most notable literary features, common to Old English literature, is its what? (OR KENNINGS) substituted for the usual names of a person or thing?

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reliance on compound phrases

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Around 563, an Irish monk, Columba did what?

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founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona

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Augustine is credited with doing what?

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building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London

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Bishop Eadfrith designed what?

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the Lindisfarne Gospels

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who made the first Celtic cross (he also made the mark of the Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument)

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St. Patrick

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On Christmas day, 800 CE, Pope Leo III crowned who emperor of the Roman Empire?

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Charlemagne

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Ronald’s horn was made from what?

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ivory of an elephant’s tusk

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the strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of: (3 things)

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courage in battle
loyalty to his lord and peers
a courtesy verging on reverence toward women

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what imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne’s Frankish kingdom?

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the rule of Benedict of Nursia

17
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the dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as what?

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refectory

18
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Hilda, abbess of Whitby, ran what? (this place was a community of both monks and nuns)

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one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries

19
Q

a ____ refers to a musical note used in Gregorian chants?

A

neum

20
Q

what documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066?

A

the Bayeux Tapestry

21
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The Domesday Book resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a complete survey of England so he could do what?

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more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to provide a new army

22
Q

Chartres claimed as its relic the what?

A

the tunic the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ

23
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Vezelay claimed as its relic what?

A

the bones of Mary Magdalene

24
Q

what is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like half a cylinder?

A

barrel vault?

25
Q

what refers to the wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church?

A

voussoir

26
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what refers to an almond shape oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists?

A

mandorla

27
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Pope Innocent III was the author of what? (whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church)

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On the Misery of the Human Condition

28
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what is the translation for memento mori?

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the reminder of death

29
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Odo of Cluny is often credited with developing one of the fist effective systems of musical notation, a method that does what?

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uses the letters A through G to name the seven notes of the Western scale

30
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Guido of Arezzo introduced the idea of what?

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depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line

31
Q

Venic manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in what?

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it becoming one of the most powerful city states in the eastern Mediterranean

32
Q

In the decade she lived in Poitiers, Elanor and her daughter, countess of Champagne, established that city as the center of what?

A

secular culture and literary movement that celebrated the art of courtly love

33
Q

Beatriz de Dia composed what?

A

“Cruel are the pains I’ve suffered”

34
Q

Chretien de Troyes composed what? which centered on the adventures of King Arthur’s court

A

Lancelot

35
Q

Lancelot is considered an example of what?

A

medieval romance

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