Universities and Scholars
This was the language of universities throughout Europe.
Latin
This was the document King John was forced to sign in 1215 that granted his barons certain rights.
Magna Carta
The epic poem Beowulf was written in this language.
Old English
This was the city the Venetians urged the Fourth Crusaders to attack so that they could gain a commercial advantage.
Constantinople
This was the most appealing subject to Medieval university students because they used it to order and clarify issues.
Logic
This is how Medieval universities were like guilds.
They had a master (teacher) and apprentices (students).
This was English law that applied to everyone throughout the kingdom.
Common law
Medieval romances were inspired by this English legend.
King Arthur
This crusade resulted in the westernizing of the Baltic region of Europe.
Northern Crusade
Name TWO elements of Romanesque architecture.
Thick, heavy walls; rounded arches; barrel (tunnel) vaults; brightly colored wall paintings
Name TWO of the seven liberal arts studied at a Medieval university.
Grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music theory, astronomy
This was the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury who King Henry II argued with over his royal courts.
Thomas Becket
These were the two themes of epic poetry.
Love and war
This was the new religious order of friars that brought religious devotion outside of the monastery and among the people.
Franciscans
This was the attempt by Spanish kingdoms (en Español) to retake control of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim control.
Reconquista
This is the name of the Catholic theologian who used Aristolelian logic to dispute and refute religious texts.
Peter the Chanter
This was the name of Henry II’s royal courts.
Eyres
Name TWO elements of Gothic architecture.
Large round (rose) stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, ribbed vaults
This religious heresy was wiped out in a crusade in France.
Albigensians
This religious order was formed to fight the Albigensian heresy.
Dominicans
This Catholic theologian created a textbook for his students that presented opposing positions on 156 subjects.
Peter Abelard
Philip II, monarch of this European kingdom, began the process of centralizing his power by annexing territory to his royal demesne.
France
This term refers to the poet’s overwhelming love for a beautiful married noblewoman who was far above him in status and utterly unattainable.
Courtly love
This was the order of laywomen who lived together in pious communities.
Beguines
This was the nickname for Henry II’s family.
Plantagenet