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Greg medieval people
important figures of the middle ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dates for the Venerable Bede | 673-735 |
| primary source for understanding the beginnings of the English people and the coming of Christianity | The Ecclesiastical History of the English Speaking People |
| ordained deacon at the age of 19 and priest at 30 | Venerable Bede |
| Arab chemist who lived in the late 700's | Jabir Ibn Haiyan |
| Known as "Sybil of the Rhine" | Hildegard of Bingen |
| Importance of Hildegard of Bingen | She is the first composer whose biography is known. She founded a vibrant convent, where her musical plays were performed |
| Century in which Hildegard lived | 12th |
| Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170 | Thomas A Becket |
| Document Thomas a Becket refused to sign, leading to Henry II's displeasure | Constitutions of Clarendon |
| At age 15 she married Louis VII, King of France | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| military activity of Eleanor of Aquitaine | dressed as an Amazon, fought in the Second Crusade |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine's second husband | Henry II of England |
| a nation with lands extending in southwestern France from the river Loire to the Pyrenees | Aquitaine |
| Eleanor and Henry II's 8 children | William, Henry, Richard I "the Lionheart", Geoffrey, John "Lackland", Mathilda, Eleanor, and Joan |
| Italian Mathematician; 1170-1240 | Leonardo Fibonacci |
| introduced Arabic numerals into European mathematics | Leonardo Fibonacci |
| a Franciscan, was a leading member of a new, rising group of "natural scientists." | Roger Bacon |
| century during which Roger Bacon lived | 13th |
| Thomas Aquinas' tutor | Albertus Magnus |
| dominican philosopher/theologian of the 13th century | Thomas Aquinas |
| Aquinas' well-known theological work | Suma Theologica |
| Muralist, fresco artist famed for his life-like depictions of Biblical personages | Giotto |
| Dates for Giotto | 1267-1337 |
| Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist who invented the sonnet form | Petrarch |
| Writer of Triumphs; On the Solitary Life; Rime Canzone | Petrarch |
| Italian Poet: 1313-1375 | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Boccaccio's most famous work | Decameron |
| 1343-1400 English writer who first wrote in English rather than Latin | Chaucer |
| His name was of French origin and meant shoemaker; son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler, and his wife Agnes | Chaucer |
| A pious child and she had her first vision when she was 13 | Joan of Arc |
| People who came to Joan of Arc in visions | St. Catherine, Margaret and Micheal the Archangel |
| Joan of Arc's divinely inspired goal | liberate Rheims so the Dauphin Charles could be crowned |
| another name for Joan of Arc | maid of Orleans |
| year in which Joan of Arc was burned at the stake | 1431 |
| 1503-1566 prophet | Nostradamus |
| Nostradamus' literary output | 942 poetic yet cryptic quatrains |
| Name of sections into which Nostradamus organized his quatrains | centuries |
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