The Black Death and After
The Black Death reached Europe in this decade.
What is the 1340s?
This 11th-century reform movement sought to free the Church from lay control and simony.
What are the Gregorian Reforms?
The Name of the Rose is set in this century.
What is the 14th century?
The alleged poisoning case in A Poisoned Past occurred in this French town.
What is Manosque?
The imposter who took Martin Guerre's identity was named this.
Who is Arnaud du Tilh?
The Black Death is believed to have killed about this fraction of Europe's population.
What one-third (or between one-third and one-half)?
This pope excommunicated Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy.
Who was Gregory VII?
The film's debate over poverty and heresy echoes tensions within this religious order.
What are the Franciscans?
The legal case revolved around a stew, made out of these ingredients, consumed by members of Margarida de Portu's family on the day of her husband's death.
What are almond and garlic?
The real Martin Guerre had left his village to fight a war in this country.
What is Spain?
What is the Statute of Laborers?
From 1309 to 1377, the papacy was headquartered not in Rome but in this southern French city, often seen as being under the influence of the French crown.
What is Avignon?
The Inquisition in the film is led by this figure, who shares a name with a real, 14th-century inquisitor.
Who is Bernard Gui?
At trial, Margarida de Portu's brother-in-law Raymond used her symptoms of this medical condition to argue she was possessed or morally suspect.
What is epilepsy?
The final trial of the impostor took place in this city, where the real Martin returned.
What is Toulouse?
This group was targeted and massacred in multiple European cities due to false accusations of well-poisoning.
Who were the Jews?
This event, lasting from 1378 to 1417, saw multiple claimants to the papacy.
What is the Western Schism?
The monastery's banned book, by this Greek philosopher, represents the threat of pagan rationalism to Church authority.
Who is Aristotle?
In A Poisoned Past, many functions of local governance in Manosque were controlled by this military religious order, better known for its crusading role in the Holy Land.
Who were the Knights Hospitaller?
This judge presided over Arnaud du Tilh's final trial and later died during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Who is Jean de Coras?
This Italian writer and humanist described the horrors of the plague in his Decameron.
Who is Giovanni Boccaccio?
This 1302 bull by Boniface VIII declared that submission to the pope was necessary for salvation.
What is Unam Sanctam?
The film's monastery includes this kind of room, where monks copied books by hand.
What is a scriptorium?
Raymon Gauterrii repeatedly requested this legal procedure to force Margarida to confess.
What is interrogation under torture?
This woman may have supported the impostor's deception as a way to gain more security or freedom within her marriage.
Who is Bertrande de Rols?