Crusades
Scholastics
1300's
Grab Bag
Scholasticism and the Medieval Synthesis
100

This order of knights was originally founded to protect pilgrims going to Jerusalem.

Templars

100

This scholar compiled a document made up of conflicting passages from the writings of various church fathers.

Peter Abelard

100

During the Hundred Years' War, knights strove after this ideal.

Chivalry

100

Excessive taxation by king John caused English nobles to assemble and write this document

the Magna Charta

100

Scholastics relied on these sources as an authority, in the same way that we think of science as authoritative today.

Old Books

200

Jerusalem was taken by this skilled and devout military leader, sparking the third crusade.

Saladin

200

He said, "I believe that I may understand."

Anselm of Canterbury

200

To justify the Hundred Years' War, Edward III of England did this.

Declared himself king of France

200

This weapon granted the English success in the early battles of the Hundred Years' War.

the longbow

200

It was the goal of the scholastics to do this with the books they read.

Synthesize them

300

This king of England failed to take back Jerusalem but won the respect of his adversary Saladin.

Richard Lionheart

300

Aquinas said that we can get some knowledge of God through natural reason, but we can only really know about the God of Christianity through this.

Revelation

300

In the 1300s, the King of France influenced the Pope to move from Rome to this location.

Avignon

300

In addition to the art in churches, medieval people often learned Bible stories through these

Morality Plays

300

When Lewis says that the medievals looked up at the night sky like a great building or cathedral, he means that they saw creation this way

orderly

400

Prince Alexius asked the Crusaders for help in retaking this city.

Constantinople

400

Aquinas and Maimonides both said that our language can't really describe God, so the Bible uses this method to speak of him

Analogy/Metaphor

400

Pope Urban's strong stance against Simony caused the college of cardinals to do this

elect another Pope

400

The scolastic method involved reading a text and then discussing it using this

asking a main question about the text

500

The Fourth Crusade got off track in part because the Crusaders lacked this.

Funding

500

This thinker wrote the first systematic theology, which went on to become the main textbook in medieval universities.

Peter Lombard

500

Medievals estimated that the Black Death caused one third of the population to die. They got this number from this source.

The book of Revelation

500

Rather than thinking of objects as obeying "scientific laws," the medievals would have used this metaphor to explain how the universe worked.

Desires/"kindly enclyning"