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The Middle Ages Terms Flashcards

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A religious institution under the dictatorship of a superior or head of a monastery; a convent

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Abbey

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An increase of size or extent by natural growth or by gradual external addition

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Accretion

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From the Latin word “to walk”; a covered walkway or aisle outdoors or indoors, especially the passageway around the apse and choir of a church

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Ambulatory

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The circular or multi-angular recess or termination of a church sanctuary; usually the east end of a chapel

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Apse

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A carved wood or stone placed figure; often in a form of a Heraldic Beast

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Beeste

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A nautical post which mooring ropes are fastened; (or) any short vertical post of stone, metal, or wood used to inhibit vehicular passage while allowing free movement of pedestrians

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Bollard

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Italian word for a bell tower; usually detached from the main building or church

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Campanile (Italian word for bell - campana)

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The part of a church near the altar, often at the east end and set apart by a rail, which is for the use of the clergy and the choir

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Chancel

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A rectangular courtyard surrounded by an open arcade; also, the covered passageways around an open space or garth; south of the nave to maximize sunlight

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Cloister

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A small column

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Colonnette

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The social, political, and economic system in medieval Europe

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Feudalism

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Under the feudal system; land held from a lord in return for service

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Fief

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The archaic word for “fountain”; usually of stone; a receptacle for holy water used in baptism

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Font

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Pertaining to the armorial bearings such as coat of arms and other symbols of genealogy, emblazoned on armor, banners, and other objects of adornment or public display

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Heraldry

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The house or hut wherein dwells a hermit; secluded retreat away from people

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Hermitage

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The innermost part of a castle; often the living quarters in a tower surrounded by wall

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Keep

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A type of piazza; a rectangular space with a structure protruding into one edge; forming a “dogleg” or two-armed public area

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L-shaped Piazza

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The Italian word for a covered gallery or portico with an open arcade or colonnade on at least one side

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Loggia

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A small loggia

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Loggetta

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A large house as the main residence of an estate; (or) in feudal England, the district or land over which the lord had authority; partially divided among his peasants in return for rent or crop sharing

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Manor

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Interconnecting passages carved in the stone floor of a Medieval church; popular in large public and private gardens in England and Europe from the middle ages to the 9th century

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Maze

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A trench, usually filled with water around a fortified structure or position

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Moat

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A place of residence occupied by monks who have retired from the world under religious vows

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Monastery

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Obscure thought or speculation; occult; transintellectual and intuitive; belief that a human’s chief end lies in seeking an intimate union of the soul with the Divinity, nature, or the world soul, achieved through contemplation

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Mysticism

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The part of a church between the entrance and the choir flanked by piers or columns that separate it from the aisles

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Nave

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Planning jargon for resultant built forms derived from a response to localized conditions of the topography and the growth by accretion

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Organic

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A person of the eastern tribe of the barbarians, which kept a monarchy in Italy between A.D. 493 - A.D. 555

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Ostragoth

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The portion of a wall above the roof gutter, sometimes battlemented; also applied to the same feature, rising breast high, on balconies or bridges

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Parapet

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From the Latin word paradisus, “an enclosed garden”; an enclosed court in front of a church, sometimes including a garden

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Parvis

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An Italian name for a public open square in an urban area; (or) a roofed walkway along the side of a building

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Piazza (Spanish - Plaza)

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An Italian urban space that has no streets extending directly through the space; the sight line of each street entering the space is terminated in it

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Pinwheel Piazza

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Rectangular plant beds, typically in the medieval garden; with wooden plans used to retain the mounds of soil; its purpose is to obtain better drainage; to maintain the beds without excessive stooping

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Raised beds

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Style of architecture based on Roman architecture prevalent in the Western Europe during the ninth and twelfth centuries

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Romanesque

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A person in feudal servitude, bound to the master’s land and transferred with the land from owner to owner

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Serf

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Part of a cruciform church at right angles to the nave and chancel; the north and south arms

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Transept

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A person of the Germanic tribe that ravaged Gaul (France) and Spain, thus, sacked Rome; disregarded the beautiful artworks created by the Romans

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Vandal

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A Teutonic person of the western group of a Germanic trine of Central Europe; invaded the Roman Empire in the late fourth century A.D.; established own kingdom in France and Spain

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Visigoth

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The primitive technique of wall building; reeds were woven together and covered with mud or plaster which then dries and becomes hard; held up by a wooden framework

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Wattle and Daub

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The major church of a diocese, which contains the throne of a bishop

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Cathedral

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From the word for any figure made up of frequently intersecting lines; embroidery; (or) an English expression for a garden composed of small hedges, bedding plants, and other ground covers in elaborate designs and patterns reminiscent of the design used in embroidery

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Knot Garden or Parterre

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From the French word that means “embroidery on the ground”; an ornamental arrangement of flowerbeds with paths of gravel, pavement, or turf

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Parterre (Broderie par terre)

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A religious ceremonial purification by cleansing in water or other liquid; the liquid used

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Ablution

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The container that holds the cleansing liquid; may be a small or a large pool

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Ablution Tank

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French and English word for “in the Arab manner”; from Moorish and Persian designs, elaborate surface decoration of intertwined foliage, floral and geometrical patterns, painted or carved in low relief

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Arabesque

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Glazed pottery tiled usually painted in bright colors with floral and other patterns, much used on the interior and exterior of Spanish and Portuguese buildings

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Azulejos

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Italian and Spanish for house

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Casa

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Italian for small house; a summer or garden house of ornamental character for amusement purposes; (or) a small country house or lodge

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Casino

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A small square elevated structure in Indian (Moghul) gardens; an open dais or gazebo; often placed over a water channel and large enough for at least two persons to sit on, cushioned by oranate carpets and pillows

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Chabutra

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Persian for “fourfold water garden,” where four water channels symbolize the four rivers of the world

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Chadar-Bagh

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The Persian word for “plane tree”; Ficus sycomorus; akin to American plane tree or sycamore

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Chenar

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Lace-like ornamental work of intertwined silver or gold wire; any delicate design

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Filigree

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Spanish for a traffic circle or a round junction of paths in a garden; equivalent of the French “Rond Point”

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Glorieta

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The exodus or escape of the prophet Mohammed, from persecutions in Mecca to Medina; (or) the era of Mohammed; (or) a journey, especially when undertaken to escape from danger

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Hegira

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The religious system of the Almighty Potentate, Allah, begun by Mohammed in A.D. 607-612, in todays’s Saudi Arabia; Mohammedanism

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Islam

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The sacred book of the Islamic religion; the revelations to Mohammed by Allah, written in Arabic

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Koran (Qur’an)

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A city in western Saudi Arabia; one of two feudal capitals; birthplace of Mohammed; the religious capital of Islam

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Mecca

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A slender tower in Islamic architecture, with balcony at its top; built near of as part of, a mosque from which a crier calls the faithful to prayer

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Minaret

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A Spanish word for “window” or “balcony” that commands view, especially from a garden or courtyard

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Mirador

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His name means “to praise”; founder of Islam

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Mohammed (Muhammad or Mahomet)

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A Moslem of Arabic and Berber racial mix living in thr area of Morocco in Northwestern Africa; (or) a person from Morocco who invaded and settled in southern Spain in the eight century; they controlled the region of Andalusia until driven out by Christians in 1492; originated many playful uses of water in the garden

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Moor

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A place of adoration; a Moslem or Islamic temple or place of worship

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Mosque

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In Islamic religion, the crier, from minaret, calls the faithful to prayer five times each day

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Muezzin

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Pertaining to Mohammedism; a believer in Mohammed; an adherent of the Islamic religion

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Moslem (Muslim)

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Of Spanish origin; a residential courtyard surrounded by low buildings or walls; a paved area adjoining a house used for outdoor living

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Patio

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The Spanish word for public square in an urban area used as a market, park, or for assembly

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Plaza

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A small stream; rivulet

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Rill or Runnel

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A monastic society or fraternity; a society of persons living under the same religious, mora,, or social regulations

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Order (i.e. The Franciscan order)

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Use as a hall of justice in Roman time; (or) a church with a nave and aisles and with clerestory windows in the nave above the aisle roofs

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Basilica

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A continental feature and contrasts with the square termination of English Gothic churches; usually at the east end of a chapel or chancel

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Apse

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The open colonnaded forecourt in the early Christian basilicas or churches; often cloistered

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Atrium

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The superior or head of a monastery

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Abbot

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