Final

Question 1

Scholasticism refers to the…

Answer 1

Philosophical and pedagogical method used by faculty of the cathedral schools and universities. Belief that everything happens for a reason, idea that faith was rational activity

Question 2

The scholastic movement is most closely associated with Dominicans like ________ and his student ________.

Answer 2

Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas.

Question 3

Gothic Architectures most distinctive characteristic is…

Answer 3

The pointed arch.

Question 4

Robert Grosseteste’s “single best-known discovery,” in the field of optics, was…

Answer 4

The first solid explanation of the cause of rainbows and the description of the color spectrum.

Question 5

Approximately how many days out of the year were church-proclaimed (holy days) during which there was to be no work?

Answer 5

100

Question 6

The original sources that tell us the story of Abelard and Heloise are?

Answer 6

The Letters between Abelard and Heloise.

Question 7

Ableard was?

Answer 7

The son of a knight, and the eldest son

Question 8

According to Heloise, Abelard was…

Answer 8

A gifted musical composer, a gifted singer, motivated by lust for her, not affection.

Question 9

Abelard established a school at Mont-Sainte-Genevieve, from which what university was established?

Answer 9

The University of Paris

Question 10

Betty Radice tells us that Heloise, in adulthood, was

Answer 10

A respected abbess of a famous convent.

Question 11

In the 11th century what was the strongest European monarchy?

Answer 11

Germany

Question 12

By the 13th century _____ had emerged as Europe’s strongest monarchy?

Answer 12

France

Question 13

According to Backman, the disasters of the fourteenth century were

Answer 13

Both long-simmering and sudden.

Question 14

What twin notions did medieval europeans inherit from the greco-romans?

Answer 14

Individual rights and public duty

Question 15

According to Backman, the first few generations of the renaissance were

Answer 15

A culmination of much medieval thinking mixed with fresh thinking, skepticism and experimentation.

Question 16

According to Backman, statecraft in renaissance Italy…

Answer 16

Had not changed significantly from what it had in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Question 17

Scholars say that the Renaissance in the fourteenth century was a time of

Answer 17

Massive weath, economic depression, severe inequites in the distribution of capital, and prosperity for towns but a bad time to be a farmer.

Question 18

The founder of humanism is usually considered to be

Answer 18

Francesco Petrarca

Question 19

For the early humanists, the classical writers were…

Answer 19

To be valued in and of themselves, and without reference to a larger purpose.

Question 20

Which city established the first lending library in the early fifteenth century?

Answer 20

Florence

Question 21

Early humanists like petrarca and boccacio celebrated humanism whereas later humanist like erasmus celebrated what more?

Answer 21

Humans

Question 22

Cellini fathered how many children? and how many did he adopt?

Answer 22

He fathered 8 and adopted 1.

Question 23

Who tried to alert cellini’s workmen that there was a burglary in progress in the workshop?

Answer 23

Cellini’s dog

Question 24

Cellini made a salt-cellar for the king of what country?

Answer 24

France

Question 25

Who was the "earliest known figure" in the Desert Fathers monastic movement?

Answer 25

St. Anthony

Question 26

Monasticism first appeared in the West in:

Answer 26

The late fourth Century

Question 27

The life of St. Martin by Sulpicius Severus in the early fifth century became the model for all medieval...?

Answer 27

Hagiography

Question 28

Who was the daughter of a prominent Irish landowner, and refused to marry and founded her convent at Kildare

Answer 28

Brigid

Question 29

Boethius's "The Consolation of Philosophy" was one of the top "best sellers" of the medieval period and was translated into the vernacular (native language) by?

Answer 29

King Alfred the great (Alfred of Wessex), Geoffrey Chaucer, and Elizabeth the first

Question 30

Benedict of Nursia founded what monastery that became the greatest monastery of the medieval period?

Answer 30

Monte Cassino

Question 31

Monks' days were organized around daily prayer services called

Answer 31

Offices

Question 32

The monastery in which Venerable Bede lived and worked was?

Answer 32

Jarrow

Question 33

According to Venerable Bede, Bishop Germanus performed miracles that helped to do what to?

Answer 33

Convert people

Question 34

Venerable Bede credited who for converting the english people to Roman Christianity?

Answer 34

Augustine and his 40 monks

Question 35

Einhard used the work of a classical author as the model for his biography of Charlemagne. Who was that classical author?

Answer 35

Suetonius

Question 36

According to Backman, the greatest achievement of the Carolingian era was?

Answer 36

The formation of cohesive wester cultural identity, and creating a sense of unity among the people, a synthesized Classical Christian-Germanic tradition.

Question 37

Both Backman and Einhard point out that Charlemagne was...

Answer 37

A good swimmer, intellectually curious, an insomniac, and a good speaker.

Question 38

During the Carolingian period, members of the lower clergy were technically...

Answer 38

Peasants

Question 39

Backman tells us about Liutberga, a young Saxon woman who became a?

Answer 39

Religious recluse and prophetess

Question 40

In Alcuins's "Life of Willibrord" the author compares Willibrord to who?

Answer 40

John the Baptist

Question 41

According to Alcuin, Willibrord spent twelve years studying at monasteries where?

Answer 41

Ireland

Question 42

According to Einhard, what was Charlemagne's reaction to the deaths of his children and close friends?

Answer 42

Grief-stricken, burst into tears, weeping.

Question 43

Einhard's "Life of Charlemagne" spends a lot of time talking about what?

Answer 43

Charlemagne's various war campaigns

Question 44

According to the introduciton to the "Two lives of Charlemagne," Notker is probably also who?

Answer 44

The Monk of St. Gall

Question 45

In Thomas Jeffersons letter to William Short, what is his opinion of the Stoics?

Answer 45

That they had misrepresented Epicurus.

Question 46

In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, women try to end a war by waging a sex strike. The women are:

Answer 46

Reluctant because they don't think they can live without sex.

Question 47

According to Backman, which Roman Emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Christians?

Answer 47

Constantine

Question 48

Backman tells us that Augustine of Hippo built his Christian philosophy on the foundation of which Classical philosopher?

Answer 48

Plato & the Neo-Platonists

Question 49

One of the chief themes of Aristotle's "The Politics" is...

Answer 49

Education and happiness.

Question 50

In Menander's Epitepontes, why does Pamphile's father threaten to take her and her dowry back home?

Answer 50

Because he thinks Pamphile's husband has abandoned her.

Question 51

According to Backman, which of the "Four Latin Fathers" invented the genre of autobiography and laid the foundation for "nearly all later medieval philosophy and theology"?

Answer 51

Augustine of Hippo

Question 52

In Plutarch's biographies, he focused on a man's what?

Answer 52

Character

Question 53

In his letter home from university, Cicero's son said?

Answer 53

Confirms that he has given up a tutor his father did not like.

Question 54

Our readings of Meander's "Epitrepontes" and Terence's "The Brothers" suggest that what was a regular occurrence?

Answer 54

Rape and/or abduction of young women.

Question 55

Eleventh and Twelfth century society in Northern Europe became characterized by feudal relations, or relationships that were based upon...

Answer 55

The idea of mutual obligation and service.

Question 56

When the Viking leader Rollo received lands from the French King Charles the Simple, Rollo objected to which part of the ritual?

Answer 56

Kissing the kings foot.

Question 57

Which of the following were part of a typical ceremony of homage binding lords and knights?

Answer 57

The Lord clasping the knights hands between his and kissing them, a pledge of fealty, swearing of an oath, and grant of investitures from lord to knight.

Question 58

What event ensured Otto I dominance in his area of Europe, economically, politically as well as militarily?

Answer 58

The discovery of an enormous silver lode near Goslar.

Question 59

According to Backman, who deserves "much of the credit" for the Ottonian cultural renewal?

Answer 59

Theophano

Question 60

According to Backman, which of the Otto's was most mighty in political and military terms?

Answer 60

Otto I

Question 61

According to The Plays of Hroswitha Introduction:

Answer 61

She was born sometime between 912 and 940. She probably entered the religious house at Gandersheim when she was about 23 years old. Given Gandersheim's exclusive status, she was probably of gentle birth, that is to say, from a high status family.

Question 62

Hroswitha wrote in...

Answer 62

Latin

Question 63

In Dulcitius who mistakes the soot-covered pots and pans for the objects of his affection?

Answer 63

Dulcitius