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47 Cards in this Set
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Ibn Rushd/Averroes |
Muslim expert on Aristotle; "Commentator" |
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Chansons de geste |
Genre of writing: war poems ("Song of Roland") |
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Romance |
Genre of writing: Chanson + Lyric = Romance |
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Beatrice of Dia |
Troubadour; Killed during Albigensian Crusade |
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Andreas Capellanus |
Eleanor of Aquitaine's priest; Translates Ovid The Art of Love |
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Mystery plays |
Plays put out by Catholic church to teach about morality and Christianity |
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Dante Alighieri |
Writes Divine Comedy (Includes Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven) |
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Romanesque |
Type of church: Round arches |
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Gothic |
Type of church: Pointed arches and Flying buttress |
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Scholasticism |
Christianity + Aristotle combined |
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Peter Abelard |
Involved in spreading scholasticism |
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Albert Magnus |
Involved in spreading scholasticism; becomes expert on Aristotle |
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Flying buttresses |
Supports in Gothic cathedrals |
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Thomas Aquinas |
Writes Summa Theologica (Combines Christianity and Aristotle, thus creating scholasticism) |
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The Great Famine |
(This and the Plague go hand in hand) Before the plague |
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The Great Plague |
1348 |
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Bubonic plague |
1st plague; Spread by fleas |
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Septicemic plague |
Life-threatening infection of the blood, most commonly spread by bites from infected fleas |
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Pneumonic plague |
Air; gets into lungs |
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Order of the Garter |
Started byKing Edward III; Knightly Order |
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Great Schism |
Great split in the church (Pope in Rome and pope in Avignon) 1405-1415: 3 popes (1 in Pisa) |
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Council of Constance |
Gets rid of all three popes |
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Pope Gregory XI |
Ends Babylonian Captivity; leaves Avignon, goes back to Rome and dies |
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Pope Urban VI |
Voted in; crazy and wants to reform church (starts Great Schism) |
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Pope Clement V |
Starts Bablyonian Captivity: 1305 |
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Pope Martin V |
Pope who replaces guys at end of Great Schism |
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Malleus Maleficarum |
"Witches Hammer" (how to find a witch and what to do with a witch) |
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Devotio Moderna |
"Modern Devotion" "Imitation of Christ" The church hates it |
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Purgatory |
Halfway point: too bad for heaven but to good for hell |
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Flagellants |
Bet themselves with whips |
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Marsilius of Padua |
Gets put in monastery because he writes Defensor Pacis (Defender of the Peace) |
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Defensor Pacis |
Defender of the Peace |
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Philip IV |
King of France |
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Edward III |
King of England at start of 100 Year War |
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Gascony |
Part of 100 Year War (Region in Southern France) |
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Joan of Arc |
Frenchwoman that convinces that Jesus is on their side; Burned as heretic |
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Hundred Years' War |
Fight between France and England; France wins in the end |
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Crecy |
Battle at 100 Year War; English victory |
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Poitiers |
Battle at 100 Year War; English victory |
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Wars of the Roses |
Civil War in England |
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Richard III |
Killed at Bosworth Field 1485 |
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Henry VII |
Tudor defeats him |
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Agincourt |
Henry V of England wins |
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Danse Macabre |
"Dance of Death" Art form |
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Piers Plowmen |
William Langlin writes |
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The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer writes |
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Decameron |
Boccaccio writes |