Monday, November 9, 2009
WH Blog Assignment #37
Hey WH Students,


Here is your Chapter 12 Study Guide. Be familiar with the following terms/people for your Chapter 12 Test on Wednesday. Complete this study guide and post your answers to your blog for 25 points:



1.feudalism- System of life based on land ownership
2.fief -land owned by a lord
3.lord -owned the land
4.vassal -worked the land and fought in the lord's army
5.knight - fought in the lord's army
6.chivalry - code of conduct for a knight
7.heraldry - coat of arms
8.castle - kings house
9.joust -medieval games
10.tournament- medieval games
11.manor- Lord/Noble house
12.serf - Servant
13.Truce of God - No fighting on friday to sunday
14.Peace of God - priests deny sacraments to those who stole from churches or killed non combatants in war
15.burg -communtiy of traveling merchants
16.middle class -burgers
17.trade fair - old flea market
18.guild - consisted of merchants artisans and craftsmen
19.black death -beubonic plague
20.Chaucer - Most famous author of medieval times; wrote Canterbury tales
21.trivium - grammar rhetoric and logic
22.quadrivium arithmetic music geometry and astronomy
23.scholasticism - theology,-roman catholic style; greek philosophy
24.Brethren of the Common Life - Christian group founded by Jerard Groote 1380
25.humanism - tried to mix christianitity and greek classics
26.patron - people who supported the arts with their own money
27.Sistine Chapel - done by michelangelo
28.Medicis - famous family of medieval times
29.Thomas Aquinas - called dumb ox but was trully brilliant
30.William of Ockham - educated at oxford said bible was ultimante authority
31.John Wycliffe - Translated the bible into common language; thought that the popes claim to absolute authority was wrong
32.John Huss - hussites; martyred burned at the stake
33.Gerhard Groote org. brethren of the common ppl.
34.Dante wrote divine comedy
35.Petrarch father of humanism
36.Bocaccio wrote the Decameron
37.Michelangelo renaissance man
38.Flanders in western belgium
39.Machiavelli - wrote the prince
40.Giotto famous artist of the renaissance
41.DaVinci - famous artist and inventor of the renaissance
42.Prague-italian renaissance