Medieval VIPs
This man was Justinian's most trusted and capable general.
Who is Belisarius?
The hunting lodge where Wiliam of Aquitaine set up a monastery with a charter granting that it answer only to the pope.
What is Cluny?
This work of embroidery depicts the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings through the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy.
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
In the readings on the papacy this semester, Pope Leo I writes a full-throated defense of this traditional understanding of the roots of papal power.
What is the Petrine Doctrine?
He doled out advice and miracles from atop a pillar in Asia Minor.
Who is Simeon the Stylite?
This man was a orphan who never learned to read or write, learned to be an astute merchant from a benevolent uncle, married his boss - a wealthy widow, and then devoted himself to religious thinking, eventually gathering a massive following.
Who is Muhammad?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia even though the two continents are contiguous.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
A series of exceptional mosaics at the Basilica (that is not a basilica) of San Vitale contain powerful and authoritative depictions of these rulers.
Who are Justinian and Theodora?
The cult of St Vedast was important to the Carolingians because it linked them to this important Frankish leader.
Who is Clovis?
A stunningly illustrated gospels book produced in Ireland, known for its intricately illuminated carpet pages and use of Celtic design features..
What is the Book of Kells?
This reform-minded pope is the artist formerly known as the monk Hildebrand.
Who is Pope Gregory VII?
In 911, Charles the Simple ceded to Rollo some land along the North Sea that would become this region.
What is Normandy?
This is name for the prepared calf- or sheep- skin on which medieval men could write.
What is vellum?
This Carolingian-era author modeled his Life of Charlemagne on Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars.
Who is Einhard?
Muhammad and his followers fled here by caravan when his hometown became too dangerous.
What is Medina?
This medieval ruler was sure to move the coronation ceremony back north of the Alps and place his own crown on his head.
Who was Louis the Pious?
This Italian city became the center of Byzantine power in Italy following Justinian's reconquest.
What is Ravenna?
Though never specifically mentioned in the Benedictine Rule, the work (labora) most widely performed by the monks of medieval Europe and most crucial to the preservation of our Roman heritage was this.
What is writing, copying, or illuminating?
These were the three animals hunted in Part III of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
What were deer (doe), boar, and fox?
Alcuin revised and expanded this Latin translation of the Bible.
What is the Vulgate?
This man anointed Pepin the Short after Pope Zacharias agreed that the Merovingian king should be deposed.
Who was St Boniface?
Charlemagne set up his imperial capital here.
What is Aachen/Aix-la-Chappelle?
These performance artists of the Middle Ages sang songs in the vernacular not in Latin and their works served as entertainment and are still well-known today.
What are troubadours?
In the article about the peasant Bodo, we learned that bishops encouraged priests to offer easier penances and demand less fasting from the peasantry than they did rich men for this reason.
What is to ensure they are able to work longer and harder at farming the land?
What is Haley's Comet?