Darty EUH 2000
Chapter Nine "High Middle Ages" Exam Terms
| Eleanor of Acquitaine, Courts of Love |
| feudalism, peasantry--serfs and freemen |
| enfeoff, fief, lord-vassal relationship, hospitality, demesne |
| commendation, oath of fealty--homage, right of succession |
| Medieval personality characteristics--5 basic elements |
| Virgin Mary cult |
| medieval agricultural technology: three-field system (crop rotation), iron plowshare, horse drawn plow--horse collar |
| medieval architectural technology: post, lintel, buttress, guy, arch, keystone arch, vault, Romanesque, Gothic, stained glass windows, flying buttress |
| characteristics of peasant life--at least 5 examples |
| free peasantry |
| aristocracy, miles, knight, melee, tournament, joust, chivalry, elements of knighthood--characteristics and process, gentle |
| peasant women versus aristocratic women |
| medieval clergy, saints, relics, pilgrimage |
| monasterial responsibilities, Benedicitines, lectio divina, priories, Cluny |
| Robert of Molesme, Cistercians, Citeaux, Peace of God and Truce of God |
| Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias |
| Crusades, Pope Urban II, First Crusade, Palestine, Saladin, Third Crusade--Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Richard the Lion-hearted, King Philip II, purpose and results of crusading |
| medieval towns, Venice, magnates, populars, new commercial ventures, business techniques, usury, simony, corporations, arengo, podestas, Flanders, textile manufacturing, blue nails |
| master, journeyman, apprentice |
| fairs of Champagne |
| intellectualism: trivium, Bolgna, Paris, universitas, Peter Abelard, Scholasticism, Aristotelian philosophy |
| lay investiture, investiture controversy |
| Thomas Aquinas, Summa Against the Gentiles and Summa of Theology, Dominicans |
| Francis of Assisi, Order of Friars Minor or Franciscans, The Rule of St. Francis of Assisi |
| Pope Innocent III |
| Hugh Capet, Philip II Augustus, baillis (bailiff), seneschals, cite, ville, universite |
| Duke William of Normandy/William the Conqueror, Battle of Hastings 1066, Domesday Book, pipe rolls, Henry II (Duke Henry of Anjou), King John I, Magna Carta |