Politics and Law
This king of England was a leader on the Third Crusade.
Who is Richard I 'the Lionheart'?
These gatherings sprung up across France and Italy at the outset of the commercial revolution and allowed farmers to sell excess produce.
What are trade fairs?
This reward for fighting in a crusade was the central motivation for many taking the cross.
What is the Crusader Indulgence?
This creature was largely responsible for the transmission of of plague during the Black Death.
What are black rats?
These works became the focal point of the Macedonian Renaissance during the ninth through eleventh centuries.
What are Ancient Greek Classics?
This peasant girl (d. 1431) galvanized the French kingdom to resist English conquest during the later stages of the Hundred Years War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
This population was forced into "unclean" economic practices forbidden to Christians.
Who are the Jews?
This Italian city meddled in the Fourth Crusade, diverting the Crusaders toward the conquest of Constantinople.
What is Venice?
This city was sarcastically depicted as a grieving widow during the Fourteenth Century.
Who/what was Rome/Roma?
This group of penitents traveled in processions whipping themselves in an effort assuage God during the Black Death.
Who are the Flagellants?
This document signed in 1215 represented an attempt by the English Barons to ensure that the king lived up to his traditional obligations as a lord.
What is the Magna Carta?
This group of people with limited opportunity to inherit property in the countryside flocked to cities during the early Commercial Revolution.
Who were the Juvenes?
What was Greek-Rite Christianity?
Christians falsely accused Jewish people of poisoning what during the Black Death.
What are wells?
This population of Arabic-speaking Christians were important facilitators of the Toledo translation project at the end of the eleventh century.
Who were the Mozarabs?
This political figure wore a three tiered crown, representing his supreme authority over the rulers of Europe.
Who was the Pope?
This association of craftsmen and/or laborers collaborated to control their particular industry.
What are guilds?
This abbot of Saint-Denis was an early innovator of Gothic architecture and hated Peter Abelard.
Who was Abbot Suger?
Control of this wool-manufacturing region was one of the major issues that contributed to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War.
What is Flanders?
This author championed the respectability and status of women in a series of late medieval texts.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
This council marked the end of the Investiture Controversy in 1122.
What is the Concordat of Worms, 1122?
This group/profession did not fit within the traditional "Three Orders" model of society.
Who are merchants / "those who trade"?
These missionaries developed a special script to ease the conversion of Slavic Peoples.
Who were Constantine-Cyril and Methodius?
This literary work featured its author,
Dante Alighieri, traveling through the nine circles of Hell.
What is the Inferno / The Divine Comedy.
Who are peasants?