the early medieval world (ch. 5) Flashcards
the days of the week are derived from the names of what Saxon gods?
Tiw, Woden, Thor, and Frigg
the days of the week are derived from the names of the Saxon gods: (state day of week they correspond with)
Tuesday – Tiw
Wednesday – Woden
Thursday – Thor
Friday – Frigg
the Saxon word “bury” can be translated as what?
fort
the Saxon word “chester” can be translated as what?
camp
what were free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres?
churls
Anglo Saxon law was based on the idea of the what? (or “life price” of an individual)
wergeld
What 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 what? (OR KENNINGS) substituted for the usual names of a person or thing?
reliance on compound phrases
Around 563, an Irish monk, Columba did what?
founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona
Augustine is credited with doing what?
building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London
Bishop Eadfrith designed what?
the Lindisfarne Gospels
who made the first Celtic cross (he also made the mark of the Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument)
St. Patrick
On Christmas day, 800 CE, Pope Leo III crowned who emperor of the Roman Empire?
Charlemagne
Ronald’s horn was made from what?
ivory of an elephant’s tusk
the strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of: (3 things)
courage in battle
loyalty to his lord and peers
a courtesy verging on reverence toward women
what imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne’s Frankish kingdom?
the rule of Benedict of Nursia
the dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as what?
refectory
Hilda, abbess of Whitby, ran what? (this place was a community of both monks and nuns)
one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries
a ____ refers to a musical note used in Gregorian chants?
neum
what documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066?
the Bayeux Tapestry
The Domesday Book resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a complete survey of England so he could do what?
more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to provide a new army
Chartres claimed as its relic the what?
the tunic the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
Vezelay claimed as its relic what?
the bones of Mary Magdalene
what is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like half a cylinder?
barrel vault?
what refers to the wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church?
voussoir
what refers to an almond shape oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists?
mandorla
Pope Innocent III was the author of what? (whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church)
On the Misery of the Human Condition
what is the translation for memento mori?
the reminder of death
Odo of Cluny is often credited with developing one of the fist effective systems of musical notation, a method that does what?
uses the letters A through G to name the seven notes of the Western scale
Guido of Arezzo introduced the idea of what?
depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line
Venic manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in what?
it becoming one of the most powerful city states in the eastern Mediterranean
In the decade she lived in Poitiers, Elanor and her daughter, countess of Champagne, established that city as the center of what?
secular culture and literary movement that celebrated the art of courtly love
Beatriz de Dia composed what?
“Cruel are the pains I’ve suffered”
Chretien de Troyes composed what? which centered on the adventures of King Arthur’s court
Lancelot
Lancelot is considered an example of what?
medieval romance
