click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
WHPN CH 11 SEC 4
History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After the collapse of the Roman Empire, what continued to be the written and spoken language of Western Europe? | Latin |
| What helped to spread the vernacular langueage among the people? | Troubadours or traveling singers |
| Name two of the most famous Troubadours? | 1) Dante Alighieri 2) Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Who were Dante and Chaucer? | Famous Troubadours |
| What does "Universitas" mean? | A Guild, An Association of People A University |
| Could any male student attend a university? | Yes, by paying Fee |
| What was the first academic degree earned and what did it represent? | Bachelor of Arts Degree Completion of an academic "Apprenticeship" |
| Following the BA degree what degree was earned and what did it represent? | Master of Arts Degree The student could become a teacher |
| After earning the MA degree and having success with it, what came next? | Could study a specialty such as medicine, law or theology |
| European Scholars, during the Middle Ages, tried to reconcile Aristotle's emphasis on what? | REASON |
| During the Middle Ages Aristotle's emphasis was on Reason but the Church's emphasis was on what? | FAITH |
| The result of the European Scholars emphasis on Reason and the Church Emphasis on Faith, resulted in what? | Scholasticism Discovering how a person caould improve themselves in this life and prepare for the next. |
| Name the important Philosophical work by Peter Abeland? | Sic et Non ("Yes and NO") |
| What did the Sic et Non ("Yes and NO") by Peter Abeland do? | It place statement made by Church Philosophers or the Pope, next to Scriptures from the Bible to show the inconsistencies of Church Teachings |
| Who developed the Sic et Non ("Yes and No")? | Peter Abeland |
| What was the philosophical work by Thomas Aquinas? | Summa Theologiae ("Summary of Theology" or "Highest Theology") |
| What was the Summa Theologiae about? | A summary of Christian thought of the times |
| Who was Thomas Aquinas? | A Dominican Friar (An order of Monks and Nuns founded by Saint Dominic of France) |
| The Church dominated thought for many centuries in Europe, and terefore Medieval thinking was primarily _____? | Deductive |
| What does Deductive mean? | That an idea or fact was taken from the authority of the Church and therefor Scientific "discovery" was not important |
| As time went on Science and reason became more important and two areas began to be investigated and used, what were they? | Math and Optics (God's influence was carried by light) |
| What is the study of light? | Optics |
| As to the arts of the medival times, where was most art concentrated? | The Church Architecture and glorifying God |
| Where does the term Gothic come from? | The Barbarian Goths |