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Chapter 12
Crusades and Culture in the Middle Ages
Question | Answer |
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the practice where non-Church clergy could appoint people to Church positions | lay investiture |
a decree by the pope that said priests weren't allowed to give the sacraments to certain people | interdict |
a Christian rite, such as baptism or marriage | sacrament |
any belief or practice that went against official Church teachings | heresy |
bones or other objects of saints that were worshiped by some Christians | relics |
"Holy Wars" that involved European Christians traveling to the Middle East with the purpose of kicking Muslims out of the Holy Land | Crusades |
a term used for Muslims during the Crusades, since they did not believe in Christianity | infidel |
the study of religion and God | theology |
a system that tried to bring together faith and reason | scholasticism |
the language of the people | vernacular |
the vernacular literature of the heroic epic that was popular in medieval Europe | chanson de geste |
hostility toward or discrimination of Jews | anti-Semitism |
government where power was centralized under a king or queen in the 15th century | new monarchy |
an annual direct tax on land or property that provided a regular income for the French monarchy | taille |
this word refers to the office of the pope | papacy |
in medieval Europe, the pope was often involved in these affairs | political |
this pope tried to end the practice of lay investiture in order to help the Church be free of its political ties | Gregory VII |
this pope used the interdict to try to control groups of people | Innocent III |
this was a group of monks who emerged in 1098 and who lived strict, simple lives | Cistercians |
in the Middle Ages, monasteries were the only place were these people could be educated | women |
this religious order was founded by Francis of Assisi and focused on missionary efforts | Franciscans |
this religious order was founded by Dominic de Guzman and worked to defend the Church from heresies | Dominicans |
the Holy Office set up to deal with heretics | Inquisition |
this was the main way that people were involved with religion in their daily life in medieval Europe | through the sacraments |
many medieval Christians honored and prayed to these people | saints |
Christians would often take these, especially to the holy site of Jerusalem | pilgrimages |
the First Crusade began in this year | 1096 |
Crusaders were able to capture Jerusalem and Antioch in this Crusade | the First Crusade |
This Crusade is remembered for being a huge failure | the Second Crusade |
This Crusade, which lasted from 1189-1192, tried to retake lands that had been lost to Saladin's army | the Third Crusade |
This Crusade was more a fight over Byzantine Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism | the Fourth Crusade |
results of these were the breakdown of feudalism and new wealth from the taxation of trade | the Crusades |
these two architectural styles appeared in the Middle Ages | Romanesque and Gothic |
these institutions of education first appeared in the Middle Ages | universities |
he was the most famous Scholastic scholar | Thomas Aquinas |
this was a popular form of vernacular poetry | troubadour |
the Black Death was caused by this | the Bubonic Plague |
this country was the first in Europe to be exposed to the Black Death in 1347 | Italy |
the Black Death is estimated to have killed this percentage of Europeans | one-third |
the Black Death led to the persecution of these people | Jews |
one of the main impacts of the Black Death were a decline in this | economy |
The Great Schism between 1378 and 1417 was related to this issue | who should be pope |
between 1305 and 1377, popes were under French influence and lived here | Avignon |
this war was between France and England over territory | Hundred Years' War |
she fought for France in the Hundred Years' War and is remembered as a martyr | Joan of Arc |
this country would eventually win the Hundred Years' War | France |
after the Hundred Years' War, this broke out in England | the War of the Roses |
Russia broke free of this group in 1480 | the Mongols |
In this country, Ferdinand and Isabel successfully removed Muslims in 1492 | Spain |
The Houses of York and Lancaster fought a civil war in England called this | The Wars of the Roses |