Land and People
Two factors accounted for the dramatic increase in population: increased security and increased ____________
What is AGRICULTURE
Cities in this country/nation assumed a leading role in the revival of trade.
What is ITALY?
Defined as a corporation or guild, these were a product of the High Middle Ages.
What are UNIVERSITIES?
The townspeople seized and imprisoned the scholars at this place.
What is OXFORD?
Because they were eager for land, these people cut down trees, drained swamps, and in the Netherlands reclaimed land from the sea.
Who are the PEASANTS?
The Flemish towns such as Bruges and Ghent became the centers for the trade and manufacture of this.
What is WOOLEN CLOTH?
The philosophical and theological system of the medieval schools
What is SCHOLASTICISM?
This man attempted to resolve some 600 theological issues by the dialectical method
Who is THOMAS AQUINAS?
Hereditary nobility: a warrior class who shared a lifestyle based on knighthood with social divisions based on wealth
What is the ARISTOCRACY?
These became the largest commercial marketplace in western Europe where the goods of northern Europe could be exchanged for the goods of the south and the east.
What is THE FAIRS OF CHAMPAGNE?
What are NOMINALISTS?
The new social and political problems in the High Middle Ages contributed to this
What is a COMMUNAL REVOLT?
The basic staple of the peasant and medieval diet
What is BREAD? (made from rye, barley, millet and oats)
What is GUILDS?
A type of vernacular literature or a heroic epic
What is CHANSON DE GESTE?
This trader was a peddler at first before traveling abroad
Who is SAINT GODRIC?
A heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare that could turn soil for drainage (and was pulled by 6-8 oxen).
What is the CARRUCA?
Because of water pollution from this/these, cities were not inclined to use the rivers for drinking water and instead relied on wells.
What are TANNERIES AND SLAUGHTERHOUSES (who dumped blood and other waste products in the rivers)?
Cathedrals in the eleventh and twelve century were built in this truly international style
What is ROMANESQUE?
No matter their status they were considered inferior to a man.
Who are WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES?