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HUMANITIES: Medieval church and papcy to Romanesque
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Undergraduate 4
03/05/2013

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Term
_____ accrues great power and wealth, becoming the LARGEST landholder in Europe. By

13th century, claimed supremacy in all matters spiritual extended to the secular world
Definition
Roman Catholic Church
Term
all countries, kings, emperoros subject to the ______ judgement and authority,
Definition
Pope's.

all learning and knowledge a Church monopoly
-- embroiling the Church in patently worldy affairs and controversies.
Term
Compliance and obedience was enforced by threats of:
Definition
1. excommunication
-indvidual exclusion from the sacraments necessary from salvation

2. interdiction
-exclusion from the sacraments for a city, province, country
Term
Any and ALL oposition to the Church is deemed ______
Definition
Heretical

-contumacious are arrested, imprisoned, and tried for HERESY
-- if necessary, will be handed over to secular authorities
Term
T/F There was an increasing wordiness, greed, ambition and lack of spirituality in priests and especially in the Church hierarchy which erodes its prestige and moral authority
Definition
true.
Term
____ based on concern for the "poor of Christ" and much influenced by courtly love tradition
Definition
Francis of Assisi

Giovanni "Francesco" de Bernadone.
Term
T/F Frencesco took the Jesus of th Gospels as his model,
-advocates a primitivistic, evangelical poverty
- humility
-love for humanity
Definition
TRUE
Term
Who established a secular religious order in which friars live and work in everyday society and among common people rather than the traditional clositered life of monks and nuns, the regular religious orders.
Definition
Francesco di Bernadone
Term
_____ exalts emotion over reason, priority of faith over the precision of dogma and ritual
Definition
Rationalistic Scholasticism

in the face of the Church's wealth and power, Francesco argues for a Christ-like poverty and abject humility for all ecclesiastics
Term
Who incorporated in to the Church, the Spiritual renewal of the Franciscans, and later the Dominicans, which eases he clamor for Church reformation for nearly 300 years
Definition
Francesco di Bernadore
Term
T/F Medieval innovations brought about agriculatural revolution, trade, and money
Definition
TRUE
Term
Innovations in Agriculture
Definition
1. heavy plow
2. 3 field system of crop rotation
3. Use of mils
4. Horse collar
Term
Effect of Innovations in Agriculture
Definition
increased food supply
subsequent surplus and freeing of farm labor

leading to --> specialized crafts and production --> trade and increasing secure routtes.
Term
What soon became indiscpensible in markets near and far?
Definition
money economy
copper
silver
gold coin
Term
___ and ___ increasingly replace manorial villages and protective casttles during the 12th and 13th century in Western Christendom
Definition
towns and cities.
Term
______ _____ of Roman world lead to expanding non European, non-Christian connections and communications, with some intercultural awareness of the larger world
Definition
Spice Trade
Term
Spices used for
Definition
1. Status symbol
2. Currency
3. warding of and curing sickness
4. summoning and dispelling good and evil spirits
5. aphrodisiacs
6/ "making flaccid penis splendid"
Term
How did stabilization and growth occur
Definition
Consolidation of national languages and boundaries

Increasing legal and military power of kings

Rise and development of commerce and merchant class
Term
T/F As the Rise of the writer occurred, reading and imitating of secular Greco-Roman literature, many of them were written in native language rather than traditional Latin
Definition
True
Term
______ _____ presents a poetic summation,
an elaborate, epic allegory synthesizing much of medieval thought
centering on quest for salvation in face of what he believes to be the end of days
Definition
Dante Alighieri
Term
What is the name of Dante Alighieri's poetic summation
Definition
La Commedia

The Divine Commedy
Term
____
adopted from the Muslim examples in Spain and Sicily an influx of previously unavailable Islamic knowledge and classical Greek texts (Artistotle)
Definition
medieval universities
Term
Western universitas began as groups of teachers in what kind of schools
Definition
cathedral schools
Term
2 Divisions in schools:
Definition
1. trivium
-grammer, logic, rhetoric

2. quadrivium
--arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music
Term
T/F in rise of education, Church lost monopoly over literacy, education, and intellectual life for the FIRTS time in over a millenium.
Definition
TRUE
Term
____ idea or belief that religious dogmas can be deduced from rational propositions, definitions, axioms
Definition
scholasticism

sparked by rediscovery of Aristotle- deductive reasoning
Term
Fides quaerens intellectum
Definition
Faith seeking understanding -

scholasticism attempt to reconcile Christian revelation with greek rationalism
Term
_______ by Thomas Aquinas, an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize all Christian articles of faith into a coherent, rational system.
Definition
Thomism

* it is with some exception the basic theology of the Roman Catholic church today
Term
___ many Christians undertake journeys to sacred sites and shrines, to fmed pilgrimage churches such as SANTIAGO de COMPOSTELA (Spain)
Definition
PILGRAMAGE

to venerate sacred remains of holic relics for remission of sins or acucmulate grace, possessed of "itchy feet".
Term
____ result of an artistic revial brought on by flowering of monasticism b/w 6th and 12th century.
Definition
ROMANQESQUE

predominntly a monastic and ecclesiastical architexture
Term
Characteristics of ROMANESQUE
Definition
1. Rouded arches and vaults
2. Thick walls
3 Shallow, nutressing
4. Rich interiors *moasiacs
5. Clerestory windows
6. Tendency to monumentally
7. unifie concept of space
8. harmonious balance of proprotions
Term
most profound and dramatic expression in the large-city cathedral, the seat of the local bishop or archbishop
Definition
Gothic style
Term
Romanesque church vs Gothic Cathedral
Definition
Roman:
-ROUND arch and vaults
-rich INTERIORS
-THICK walls

Gotihic:
-POINTED arch and valuts
-rich EXTERIOR
-THIN walls
Term
primary principle or stucture which underlies all Gothic architextural thinking
Definition
Vaulting
- pointed arch and vaults
Term
transfers the trhust of a cahtedrals nave roof and wall to lower, more solidm aisle buttresses
Definition
flying butress
Term
Gothic Dualism: CHURCH
Definition
State
Term
late middle ages riven by tensions and conflict. traditinonal and new
Definition
gothic dualism
Term
Gothic Dualism: papacy
Definition
monarchies
Term
Gothic Dualism:
international christendom
Definition
national loyalties
Term
Gothic Dualism
spirituality
Definition
materialism
Term
Gothic Dualism
landed aristocracy
Definition
urban merchants and artisans
Term
Gothic Dualism
regular religious orders
Definition
Gothic Dualism
secular religious orders
Term
Gothic Dualism
latin
Definition
vernacular
Term
music in which two or more voices or groups of voices sing or play different notes simultaneously
Definition
polyphony
Term
polyphony
Definition
music in which two or more voices or groups of voices sing or play different notes simultaneously
Term
-destroys individuals, entire communities, societie, ways of life. 1374 75 million people - 25 mil die in four years
Definition
Black Death
--> depopulation, sharp decline in workforce --> greater freedom and self determination for SERFS and working class
Term
T/F after black death, peasants revolts demanding lightening the lowr class burdens, loosening the fuedal social structure, weakening prestige of Church.
Definition
TRUE
Term
the introduction and development of labor saving devices post black death
Definition
TRUE
1. WIND and water mills
wheelboarros
heavy plows
ship rudders
fork buttons
Term
Asuring at least for the nobility, and ofew other freeman.
Definition
magna carta
Term
No freeman shall be arrested or improsoned, or dispossed or outlawed or banaished in any way moleted, nor set for against him UNLESS BY LAWFUL JUDGEMENT OF PEERS AND LAW OF LAND
Definition
Magna Carta. basic legal rights
Term
First Parilament
Definition
London . let all which touches be aproved by all- nobility, gentry, bishops
Term
ended mideveal concepts of arsitocratic knighthood of warrior class and foundation in feudalism
Definition
gun poweder and guns
Term
seeking to limit interference of Church = French affaris consolidate control over power and weatlh.

*pope issue
Definition
Babylonian Cpativity - Great Schism
Term
French moved pope from Rome to
Definition
Avignon France
Term
scandalous divides of loyalties of faithful, cfreates oncsternation and confusuion
Definition
TRUE. babylonian captivity
Great schism

--> futher undermining Church prestige and moral claims
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