The Medieval Church
The Heart of Christian culture in Europe had always been?
The Monasteries
During the seven years a boy would serve in the household of his master, he was called?
A Page ;)
Devotion to St. James was the greatest in this kingdom
Castile
One of the most popular medieval epics, this was a story named after a hero who comes to Denmark to destroy a terrible monster.
Beowulf
A group of master craftsmen who set standards of quality and pricing for certain products, as well as decided who was and was not skilled enough to work in a trade
A guild
Famous stained glass windows were in this kind of Church
Gothic Churches
The greatest preacher of the Middle Ages was?
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
A man, usually of noble birth, who served his lord in battle as a mounted warrior was called?
A Knight
The muslim part of Spain
Andalusia
Poems about warrior-heroes
Epics
A kind of beer that everybody drank in the Middle Ages, sometimes even young people
Ale
The Church architecture of the later Middle Ages was able to support larger windows because of its ribbed vaults and flying buttresses
The Gothic Architecture
St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote the rule for the?
Cistercians
Those who served or pledged loyalty to the lord
A vassal
Muslim warriors were sometimes called
the Moors
Stories that told of the lives, virtues, and miracles of a saint
Hagiographies
Most of the land in the Middle Ages was owned by these people
Nobility
The style of churches of the early Middle Ages, which had massive, thick walls to hold up their heavy roofs were called
Romanesque architecture
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
This is like a bow and arrow attached to a stock and fired like a gun
A crossbow
The biggest shrine in Spain, dedicated to St. James
Santiago de Compostela
An imaginary account of Dant's pilgrimage through the afterlife
The Divine Comedy
Peasants who did not own their farms and cottages and were bound to the land they worked for their lord were called
Serfs
the type of colored glass that would produce marvelous patterns of color and light inside the church when the sunlight shined through
Stained glass windows
What did mothers do when they heard that St. Bernard was coming into town?
They would hide their sons. LOL
A code of conduct that guided how knights were to act
Chivalry
The Spanish name for St. John the Apostle
Santiago
One of the most famous examples of a medieval romance was this story about a mysterious visitor to the court of King Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The largest cities in Western Europe during the middle ages were
London and Paris
Freestanding pillars outside of a Gothic church, connected by arches to give extra support to the walls, were called
Flying buttresses