The University
Up North
Crusades
Economy
Love and Marriage
100
This discipline was the "Queen" of the Sciences.
What is theology?
100
This Swedish abbess received visions and directed her community at Vadstena.
Who is St. Birgitta?
100
After Urban II's rousing speech at Clermont, the audience rose and shouted this with one voice.
What is Deus Vult? (God wills it!)
100
The income tax was introduced with a papal charge on the earnings of this group in 1199.
What is the clergy?
100
This lover of Heloise and combative "New Aristotelian" recorded his exploits in a ground breaking form of biography in The History of My Calamities.
Who is Peter Abelard?
200
Dominicans dominated the faculty at the University of Paris, but these monks held sway at Oxford.
Who are the Franciscans?
200
This Viking monarch with a colored smile had himself baptized in 965, and centralized his rule in Denmark.
Who is Harald Bluetooth?
200
When the crusader castle in this city fell in 1291, it spelled the end of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
What is Acre?
200
The crusades turned out to be good business for this order, which established its bank in Paris in 1190.
Who are the Knights Templar?
200
The lyrics of these musicians usually pined away for a love that was out of reach.
Who are the troubadours?
300
Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon, his plan for the University of Paris, was based on this kind of classical education, also known as the quadrivium and trivium.
What are the liberal arts?
300
This body voted to adopt Christianity in Iceland around the year 1000.
What is the Althing?
300
Unrest in the south of France led to a crusade against these religious dissidents in 1208.
Who are the Albigensians or Cathars?
300
These merchants cornered the market in the Baltic, and brought the King of Denmark to his knees in the 1370s.
What is the Hanseatic League?
300
This 1215 meeting established the number of sacraments at 7 and included marriage.
What is the Fourth Lateran Council?
400
This body set the requirements for university degrees and length of service for apprenticeships.
What is a Guild of Masters?
400
Wooden structures like these merged Norse craftsmanship with Christian ecclesiastical design.
What are stave churches?
400
A crusade by St. Erik in Sweden effectively added this eastern land to his realm.
What is Finland?
400
A "plenary" form of this wiped away all one's sins, for the trouble of undertaking a crusade. Or pay a mercenary knight to take your place and you can stay at home instead.
What is a plenary indulgence?
400
Look before you leap...or tie the knot? Marriage within seven degrees of this is not allowed!
What is consanguinity?
500
Academic freedom was established at this Italian University in 1220. This was also the location of the earliest law school.
What is the University of Bologna?
500
This woman unified the three Scandinavian kingdoms in her "person" in the Kalmar Union in 1397.
Who is Margrethe I?
500
This 1071 defeat of the Byzantines prompted Alexius I Comnenus to ask the Pope for help. The response finally came in 1095 at the Council of Clermont.
What is the Battle of Manzikert?
500
This eleventh century monk from Ravenna rejected wealth and kicked off the hermit movement that inspired St. Francis to do the same.
Who is Peter Damiani?
500
This scholar championed Judaism as having its own high culture, and wrote poetry on themes of secular love.
Who is Judah Halevi?