islamic world pt 2

Question 1

3 important historical issues

Answer 1

• did islamic scholars transmit info or contribute to it
• to what extent did religious thought in islamic civilization help or hinder scholarship
• why was there no self-sustaining revolution in islamic sciences

Question 2

why was there revolutions in Islam but not europe

Answer 2

religious reaction and violence

invention of printing in europe

Question 3

scholastiscm

Answer 3

assimilation of ancient writings into a christian framework

Question 4

albertus magnus

Answer 4

doctor universalis
- literary scholar, alchemists, teacher
foremost medieval naturalist
- first person to isolate arsenic
- made aristotles conception of nature widely known
- pupil st thomas aquinas became the greatest scholastic

Question 5

st hildegard of bingen

Answer 5

a nun, abbess and mystic

- healer, naturalist, muscisian

Question 6

frederick 2 of hohenstaufen

Answer 6

holy roman emperor

• grew up in sicily became fluent in. Latin, Greek, Arabic and Italian
• highly intelligent and competant, had a universal curioisity

Question 7

what was fredricks most important contribution

Answer 7

the art of falconry

- worth money

Question 8

fredricks beliefs

Answer 8

did not share religion, assumption or approach of scholastics
- believed in free thought in religious matters

Question 9

university of naples

Answer 9

established by Frederick in 1224

- still exists