Philosophy & Theology
Literature
Universities
Science
Law
100
Peter Abelard's student and author of the Sentences.
Who is Peter Lombard?
100
The most popular vernacular literary work in the Middle Ages.
What is the Romance of the Rose?
100
A form of instruction based on careful reading, lecture, and memorization.
What is lecture by gloss?
100
Location of the roots of the scientific recovery in Europe.
What is Baghdad?
100
Another name for ecclesiastical law.
What is canon law?
200
A Spanish Arab philosopher, dedicated to Aristotelian logic.
Who is Ibn Rushd?
200
An example of an early Germanic chanson de geste.
What is the Song of Hildenbrand?
200
The age when most students began university.
What is 15?
200
Recognized for their expertise in medicine.
What are Jewish scholars?
200
This Roman text demonstrated that law could be systematic and could change over time.
What is the Corpus iuris civilis?
300
The position that universals are simply names or mental categories the human mind uses to understand the world.
What is nominalism?
300
Bawdy and irreverent short stories.
What are fabliaux?
300
Students were primarily housed according to this principle.
What is nationality?
300
He introduced Arabic numerals and algebra.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
300
The idea that you carry your law with you, wherever you go.
What is "personality of the law"?
400
Anselm of Canterbury constructed this type of argument for the existence of God.
What is an ontological proof?
400
A student song that celebrates the student lifestyle and relationships between students.
What is We In Our Wandering?
400
The seven liberal arts--i.e., the trivium and the quadrivium.
What are grammar, rhetoric, logic, music, astronomy, arithmetic, and geometry?
400
The four humors that were believed to govern the human body.
What are blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile)?
400
He wrote a text summarizing canon law traditions and designed to help in everyday situations.
Who is Gratian?
500
According to Peter Abelard, in Sic et Non, this behavior is the first key of wisdom.
What is "assiduous or frequent questioning"?
500
This poem could be summarized as "students live varied lives--but they all get drunk."
What is Some Are Gaming?
500
According to Jacques de Vitry, "They not only hated one another, but by their flatteries they enticed away the students of others; each one seeking his own glory, but caring not a whit about the welfare of souls."
What are doctors of theology?
500
He explained to his readers that it is logical to conclude that the earth is surrounded on all sides by air, although it is heavy.
Who is Adelard of Bath?
500
He attempted to reconcile the Anglo-Saxon view of the relationship between the king and law with the Roman view.
Who is Henry Bracton?
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