Vocabulary
What is manorialism?
It was a system that described the economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers.
Why did Clovis convert to Christianity?
What is the role of the guilds?
Maintain quality of goods
Establish prices for goods
Provide social services
Who is Benedict of Nursia?
St. Benedict created a set of rules for monasteries.
What were the social and economic effects of the Black Plague?
Around 1/3 of the population of Europe was killed. This caused labor shortages, many people left the manors and cities. Peasants began questioning their place in society more and more, the church also lost some power because of the massive loss of life.
What is lay investiture?
When secular rulers would appoint church officials
What did Charlemagne re-introduce to his kingdom?
He re-introduced Latin learning and an education system.
What was the concept described in the Magna Carta that required legal matters to be resolved according to established rules and principles?
Due Process
What is the name of the text written by St. Thomas Aquinas?
Summa Theologica
This form of architecture was developed during the middle ages and featured pointed arches and flying buttresses.
Gothic Architecture
This Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated by the pope over lay investiture.
Henry IV
England and France fought each other in which major war?
Hundred Years War
Dante Aligheri was an Italian Poet who wrote which piece of literature?
Divine Comedy
Christian scholars tried to use a method known as ______________________ to resolve the conflict between faith and reason.
Scholasticism
How would you describe the rule of the Holy Roman Emperors?
The Holy Roman emperors came into constant conflict with the popes over appointment of Church officials and could not control their nobles.
Kings in the high Middle Ages granted many __________________ to the leaders of the towns to strengthen ties between the kings and townspeople as well as weakening the nobility.
Charters
The French heretical group, the _____________________________________, were eventually slaughtered by the French King Phillip II in his attempt to gain favor with the papacy and gain more land in Southern France.
Albigensians