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Humanities 102 Final Review
First Year Humanities, Second Semester
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/08/2012

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Ora et labora
Definition
Prayer and work
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Manor
Definition
The house of the lord and of the lands attatched to it
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Manorialism
Definition
Relationship between a noble and a peasant
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Mayores
Definition
Nobles
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Foundations of Towns
Definition
Easily defendable, trade and commerce, rise of agricultural improvement (less farming so people moved went and worked in tonws)
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Rise of Cities
Definition
Emergence of distinct religious institutions, organized hierarchy, sophisticated art, organized administration
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Charter
Definition
Helped regulate relationship between outsiders and townspeople
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What made the town free
Definition
Carried out tasks of the government
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Guild Halls
Definition
Buildings for transacting business
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Portman
Definition
Maintain town liberties
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Cathedral
Definition
Church were a bishop of a diocese resides; seat or thrown in Latin
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3 Orders of the population
Definition

Nobles: those who ruled

Clergy: Those who prayed

Peasants: Those who worked

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Flying Butresses
Definition
A support structure on the outside wall that would the load weight from the inside
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Ribbed Vaults
Definition
Higher, stronger more flexible
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Barrel Vault
Definition
Half Cylinder structures, (two= Groin Vault)
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St Francis of Assisi
Definition
Cloth merchants son, disowned father and became a merchant
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Parents of St Francis of Assisi
Definition
Pica and Pietro Vernadonnai
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Etruscans
Definition
Conquered  Umbria
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Bonaventure
Definition
Wrote Life of St Francis
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Serfs
Definition
Securely attached to the lord's land
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Villeins
Definition
Farmers, skilled workers who had freedom and owned land
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Heresy
Definition
A false teaching or formal denial of some essential truth from faith
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2 themes from Marie de France
Definition
Love and Drama
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Lais
Definition
Self defining narrative poem on the theme of love, based on celtic folklore, ba acompanied by music
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Vernacular
Definition
not writen in latin, common language
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Imagery
Definition
Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience, helping the reader create a mental image and thus feel more involved in the work
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Personification
Definition
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities
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Symbol
Definition
 Something that represents something else by association or convention, especially a material object used to represent something visible
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Similie
Definition
A comparison using like or as
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Metaphor
Definition
A word or phrase designating one thing is used to designate another
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Allegory 
Definition
A sustained metaphor- one wher the substitution carries through a long narrative
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Five Green Things
Definition

5 Senses

5 Fingers

5 Joys of Mary

5 Wounds of Christ

5 Chivalric Values

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5 Chivalric Values
Definition
Franchise, fellowship, charity, cleanness, courtesy
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4 Cardinal Virtues
Definition
Temperence, justice, prudence, courage
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Sir Berterad
Definition
Knight that Sir Gawain stays with, turns out to be the Green Knight
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Chaucer
Definition
Author of the Miller's tale
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John the Carpenter
Definition
Senex amans (old lover)
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Alison
Definition
Lusty young wife
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Nicholas and Absolon
Definition
clerks
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Sely
Definition
"Silly", innocent, naive, foolish
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Hende
Definition
Noble or gracious
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Monophony
Definition
Single melodic line
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Hildegard of Bingen 1100 AD
Definition
Music composer, raised by benedictine monks
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Polyphony
Definition
Several lines of music of individual melody
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Anselm
Definition
 Anselm was born in Aosta in the lower nobility class, educated in Benedictine monastery, lived with his Mother in Burandary
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Lanfranc
Definition
Educated Anselm
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4 Purposes of the Prosologion
Definition

To prove that God exists

To prove that God is the supreme God

To prove that God created everything

To prove whatever else is believed about God

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Eadmer
Definition
Wrote life of Saint Anselm
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Bologna
Definition
First University, time of Aquinas
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Inerius
Definition
Lived in Bologna, scholar of Roman law
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Gratian
Definition
Studied church law
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Trivium
Definition
Grammar, rhetoric and logic
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Quadrivium
Definition

Arithmatic

Astronomy

Geometry

Music

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Licentiate
Definition
you could now teach liberal arts to the younger students
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Universitas
Definition
Latin word for Guild
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Thomas Aquinas
Definition
From a fuedal family, called a dumb ox, relative of Holy Roman Emperor
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Dominican Monks
Definition
The more you know the more you love him
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Fransiscan Monks
Definition
The more you love him the more you know him
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Romanesque
Definition
11th-12th century, before Gothic, churches dark and heavy, 
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Coloni
Definition
Freedmen still bound to soil
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Lidi
Definition
Half-free slaves
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Servi
Definition
Slaves with the heaviest obligation
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Commune
Definition
An arrangement by which all persons are subject to a yearly tax
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Church of St Denis
Definition
Rebuilt by Abbot Suger, began Gothic architecture
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Bonaventure
Definition
Wrote Life of St. Francis
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Bisclavret
Definition
The Werewolf
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Green Girdle
Definition
Gawain is given thhis by the lady to protect him in fighting the Green Knight
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Where were Felicitas and Perpetua martyred?
Definition
Carthage
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Hildebrand
Definition
Gregory VII
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Benedictine hermit life
Definition
Subiaco
Term
3 vows of Benedictine monks
Definition
Obedience, stability and conversion
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Martin Luther King's "myth of time"
Definition
Time can't change anything only events can
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Monte Cassino
Definition
First Benedictine Monastery
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Catachumen
Definition
wanted to learn more about Christianity
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Helenism
Definition
Spreading of Greek Culture
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Power
Definition
Ability to get things done
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Authority
Definition
Ability to command respect
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Son of Helena
Definition
Constantine
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Hagia Sophia
Definition
Cathedral turned into a mosque by Mehmed
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Einhard
Definition
Wrote the Life of Charlemagne
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People from Northern Europe conquered by Charlemagne
Definition
Saxons
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OFM
Definition
Order of Friar Minor
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Hageography
Definition
Study of the Saints
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Simony
Definition
By/sell clerical offices
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Quyt
Definition
Repaying debt
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Fablio
Definition
Story written by French upper class about the sexual lives of the lower class
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Aventura
Definition
Chance, accidental event
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Bob and wheel
Definition
ABABA rhyme scheme, end of every stanza
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Mt Rushmore of Catholic Philosophers
Definition
Augustine, Aquinas, Aristotle, and Plato
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Rationalism
Definition
Philosophy, socratic life
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Albert the Great
Definition
Teacher of Aquinas
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Hylomorphism
Definition
Metaphysical view according to which every natural body consists of two intrinsic principles, one potential, namely, primary matter, and one actual, namely, substantial form.
Term
Anachronism
Definition
Referring to the past, an item misplaced in time
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Mystery plays
Definition
Drama based on biblical events, often played in a series
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Miracle plays
Definition
Not biblical, based on lives of Saints, played on feast days
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Morality plays
Definition
Taught a moral lesson through allegorical characters
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Allegorical Characters from the Book of the City of Ladies
Definition
Lady Reason, Lady Justice, Lady Rectitude
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