Week 7 & 8
This famous embroidery depicts Duke William of Normandy's conquest of England.
The Bayeux Tapestry
This large kingdom in eastern Europe was formed from both Slavic and Norse influences.
Rus'
This climate event helped spark the Commercial Revolution.
The Medieval Warm-Up
This object was the symbol of pilgrimage
Seashell
This king of France was blamed for the death of Pope Boniface VIII.
Philip IV (d. 1314)
This new structure allowed eleventh-century private lords to dominate localities with a relatively small number of knights.
Castles
This intellectual movement overlapped with the renewed military and political influence of Byzantium during the 9th and 10th centuries.
The Macedonian Renaissance
These new sites of commercial exchange led to the rise of new cities.
Trade Fairs
The Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitilar, and the Teutonic Knights are examples of this new form of religious life (popularized in the 12th century)
The military orders
This cuddly creature carried flees infected with yersinia pestis.
The Rat
This family replaced the Carolingian Dynasty in East Francia/K. of Germany.
The Ottonians
This theory argues that eastern Europe was closed off from western Europe as a result of conversion directed by the Byzantines.
The Byzantine Commonwealth
This woman was the pupil of Peter Abelard and an important medieval thinker in her own right.
Heloise
This group from central Eurasia became the dominant military and political power in the Islamic world just before the Crusades.
Seljuk Turks
This region of southern France was disputed between the kings of France and England during the 100 Years War (1337-1453)
Gascony
The Benedictine Rule requires monks to take these three vows
Poverty, Chastity, Obedience
This female Rusian ruler is credited with paving the way for the Christianization of Kievan Rus.
Olga of Kiev (d. 960)
This emperor was the main opponent of Gregory VII (d. 1085) during the Investiture Controversy.
Henry IV (d. 1105)
This new form of antisemetic trope saw Christians caught up in the new economy and fervor of the Crusades accuse Jews of murdering Jesus. This led to pogroms
Blood-Libel
This form of Plague attacked the blood directly, making it the most deadly form.
septicemic plague
The latin word miles refers to this new type of mounted warrior in the 10th and 11th centuries.
knight
These two Byzantine clergymen were responsible for creating a script that was helpful in the conversion of Slavic-speaking peoples.
Constantine-Cyril & Methodius
This discipline was seen to be the "queen of all academic fields"
This Battle Prompted Emp. Alexios Commenos to appeal to Urban II for aid in Anatolia.
The Battle of Manzikert, 1071
This Papal pronouncement by Boniface VIII insisted that the papacy was above all other earthly authorities.
Unam Sanctam (1302)