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A female composer, visionary, and healer who wrote music for the nuns under her care.
Who was Hildegard of Bingen?
The Duomo di Milano took this long to complete.
How long is 600 years?
Hildegard of Bingen was born in this country.
Where is Germany?
True or false: fearsome animals were kept in the castle moats to further discourage attackers.
What is a falsehood?
The material used as "paper" in manuscript making.
What is vellum?
A character in a medieval morality play who ends up only being able to take Good Deeds with him in death.
Who was Everyman?
Water spouts that also serve to ward off evil spirits.
What are gargoyles?
Hildegard began experiencing ____________ at a young age.
What are visions?
The first type of castle.
What is a motte-and-bailey?
Applied gold leaf to a manuscript.
What is a gilder?
"Invented" the sequence (a short extra hymn sung as a commentary of the day's feast).
Who is Notker Balbulus?
A style of architecture from roughly 1000-1300 and is characterized by heavy pillars and rounded stone vaulted arches.
What is Romanesque?
The earliest known morality play.
What is Ordo virtutum?
A dungeon was originally called a ____________ and was used for storing goods.
What is a donjon?
Instead of page numbers, this helped a person find their way through an illuminated book.
What are capital letters?
This French leader's government financed the completion of the Duomo di Milano (the Milan Cathedral).
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The chief architect allegedly made a pact with the devil in order to finish this cathedral..
Where is the Cologne Cathedral?
The name of the book in which Hildegard recorded his visions.
What is scivias?
Built many castles in England which served mostly as psychological deterrents for the conquered Saxons.
Who were the Normans?
Name a famous illuminated manuscript from the British Isles.
Book of Kells
or
Lindisfarne Gospels
A 12th century Church philosopher who reconciled faith and reason and based much of his work on Aristotle.
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
A statue in the Milan Cathedral depicts this saint wearing his skin as a cloak around him.
Who is St. Bartholomew?
Hildegard founded the Abbey of ____________ in 1150 after Abbot Kuno tried to stop her.
Where is Rupertsberg?
A famous castle in London that has served many purposes over time, but most notably as a horrible prison for high profile inmates such as Guy Fawkes and Anne Boleyn.
Where is the Tower of London?
The substance used to make blue paint.
What is lapis lazuli?