Vocabulary, pt.1
The buying or selling of church offices or positions.
Simony
A style of architecture characterized by pointed arches, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows.
Gothic
The rise of towns brought about an end to this system.
Manorial system
Who was the leader of the church in the Medieval Europe?
The Pope
What position authority held the highest rank in the feudal period of Europe?
King
A medieval method of learning that used logic and reason to understand faith.
Scholasticism
Guilds
What allowed the towns to prosper and see different peoples travel far distance to meet?
Trade
What organization was extremely important to everyone in Medieval Europe?
The Church
What is Feudalism?
A political, economic, and social form of government based and loyalty and service.
A Christian theologian who sought to reconcile faith with reason, especially Aristotle's philosophy.
Thomas Aquinas
A document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the English king and protected the rights of nobles.
Magna Carta (Great Charter)
Money replaced this form of business that included trading one item for another.
Barter
The dominate Christian religion was the __________.
Roman Catholic Church
The lowest rank of people in feudal Europe were known as what?
Peasants/Serfs
A political, economic, and social system in which land was exchanged for loyalty and service.
Feudalism
A period when the pope lived in Avignon, France, which weakened the papal authority.
Avignon Papacy
The Medieval towns were the home of businessmen who bought and sold goods. What were these businessmen called?
Merchants
Name of the split that occurred in the church in the middle ages.
The Great Schism
Who were the soldiers of Medieval Europe?
Knights
A political unit in which a group of people share a common government, culture, and territory.
Nation-state
The growing middle class of merchants and townspeople in medieval Europe.
Bourgeoisie
Name of the medieval institutions of higher learning, where theology, law, medicine, and the liberal arts were taught.
The Universities
Corruption in the church included selling certificates of forgiveness known as ______________.
Indulgences
What was manorialism?
A self sustaining community of knights and peasants that was ruled by a lord(vassal) with the center of the estate being the manor.