Vocabulary
This is a censure in the Catholic Church depriving a person of the right to receive the sacraments of the church.
What is excommunication?
This was the nickname given to the large round stained glass windows in Gothic architecture.
What are rose windows?
This is the name of the document that English barons forced King John to sign at Runnymede in 1215.
What is Magna Carta (the Great Charter)?
This was an arm of the Catholic Church whose function was to seek out and punish heretics.
What is the Inquisition?
These are the three subjects studied at Medieval universities.
What are theology, law, and medicine?
This is the holding of religious doctrines different from official teachings of the church.
What is heresy?
This type of Gothic art was essentially a decorative waterspout.
What are gargoyles?
This was the main complaint English barons had against King John.
What is he was imposing heavy taxes to finance his wars against England?
This monastic order of friars was created to combat the Albigensian heresy.
What is the Dominican Order?
This literary work written by Dante focused on both earthly themes of love and spiritual beliefs of the divine.
What is the Divine Comedy?
This is the everyday language of a region, as distinguished from a language used for special purposes.
What is the vernacular?
This was the name given to the decorative ceiling supports in Gothic architecture.
What are ribbed vaults?
This is one of the main declarations of the Magna Carta.
What is it implied that even the king had to obey the law; it declared that all free men had the right to justice and a fair trial; it stated that no man shall be arrested or imprisoned except by the judgment of their equals and by the law of the land.
This was one of the most important church laws established at the Fourth Latern Council that applied to all lay Catholics.
What is that lay people had to attend Mass and confess once a year?
This was the name of Spain's representative body that counseled the king on political and military matters.
What is the Cortes?
This is a term that means hostility toward or discrimination against Jews.
What is anti-Semitism?
These permitted permitted much of the wall to be cut away and the open spaces to be filled with glass.
What are flying buttresses?
This was law that was applied to all and imposed by the king's courts to replace the customary law used in country and feudal courts that varied from place to place.
What is common law?
This Medieval Dominican friar used reason and the teachings of Aristotle to "prove" God's existence.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
The attempt to reconcile (unite) faith and reason was a goal of which group of Medieval religious philosophers?
Who are the scholastics?
This is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that during the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine is miraculously transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
What is transubstantiation?
Gothic architecture was mostly used in the construction of these types of buildings.
What are cathedrals?
This conflict between King Henry and the Archbishop Thomas Becket was over this issue.
What was Thomas Becket refused to allow clergy to be tried before royal courts?
This was the name of the papal bull asserting that spirtual power was greater than temporal power.
What is the Unam Sanctam?
This was the attempt by Christian Spanish monarchs to take control of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors.
What is the Reconquista?