Royal Heavyweights
This English king, nicknamed "Longshanks," formalized the Model Parliament in 1295.
Who is Edward I?
This method of teaching relied on "Disputation and Debate" to find a synthesis between conflicting ideas.
What is the Scholastic Method?
This was the primary reason Edward I called the Model Parliament.
What is to raise taxes for war?
This 1302 decree was the most extreme statement of papal authority in the Middle Ages.
What is Unam Sanctam?
Dante Alighieri’s political work that argued for a separation of powers between the Pope and the Emperor.
What is De Monarchia (On Monarchy)?
He is the only canonized French king, remembered for combining Christian humility with judicial authorit
Who is St. Louis IX?
This category of the Liberal Arts includes Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric.
What is the Trivium?
In the French Estates General, the "First Estate" was comprised of this group.
Who is the Clergy?
This territorial dispute over a region in France fueled the need for taxation and the ensuing Church-State conflict.
What is the Gascony Dispute?
In De Monarchia, Dante argued that secular monarchs rule independently of the Pope because their authority comes from this source.
Who is God?
This French king centralized royal power and famously moved the papacy to Avignon.
Who is Philip the Fair (Philip IV)?
The Quadrivium consisted of these four mathematical arts: Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and this.
What is Music?
The "Third Estate" in France was made up of this group of people.
Who are the Commoners (or Townspeople)?
He was the Pope who claimed that submission to the Roman Pontiff was necessary for salvation.
Who is Boniface VIII?
This Greek philosopher’s logic was the foundation for the Scholastic method.
Who is Aristotle?
Edward I used these specific "Statutes" to review and challenge land ownership and feudal rights.
What are the Statutes of Quo Warranto?
Known as the "Angelical Doctor," he synthesized Aristotelian logic with Christian doctrine and argued that Faith and Reason are compatible and work together.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
The Model Parliament was significant because it was the first time these two groups of commoners were included alongside lords.
Who are Knights and Burgesses?
The "Unam Sanctam" used this "weaponized" metaphor to describe the relationship between Church and State power.
What is the "Two Swords" theory?
Medieval universities were primarily overseen and controlled by this institution.
What is the Church?
Philip the Fair clashed with the Pope primarily over his attempt to do this to the clergy.
What is tax them?
Aquinas famously argued that these two things are not in conflict, but actually work together.
What are Faith and Reason?
The Model Parliament laid the groundwork for this modern concept of government.
What is Representative Government?
Philip the Fair called this assembly to gather national support for his fight against the Pope.
What is the Estates General?
The idea that a king must get "consent" to tax his subjects reflects a shift away from this older system of power.
What is Feudalism?