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


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