Highlights Flashcards

(56 cards)

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Stability and Law-abiding civilizations

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-farming w/o fear
-citizens can travel
-trade links regions
-buildings built
-schools
-literacy more common

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England’s founding epic poem

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Beowulf

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Charlemagne’s grandpa

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Charles Martel

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What marked the final split between Rome and Constantinople / solidification of papal alliance with the West

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When Charlemagne became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (Christmas Day 800)

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Trivium

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grammar, rhetoric, dialect

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Quadrium

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arithmetic, geometry, music

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Mass Ordinary know 5 in order

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  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus
  5. Agnus Dei
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Which mass ordinary is about mercy in Greek?

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Kyrie

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Which mass ordinary is about glory to God

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Gloria

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Which mass ordinary is about the Nicean Creed of the Trinity / basic beliefs?

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Credo

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Which mass ordinary is about holiness?

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Sanctus

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12
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Which mass ordinary is about the Lamb of God and mercy

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Agnus Dei

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Who was a monk and medieval theorist that used hand for singing (Guidonian hand)?

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Guido d’Arezzo

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14
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Charlemagne’s father

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Pepin the Short

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15
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Charlemagne’s son

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Louis the Pious

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What did the Treaty of Verdun do?

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Split the Holy Roman Empire among three sons (Charles the Bald, Louis the German, and Lothair); beginning of modern country boundaries

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Symbols of the evangelists in order

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Matthew: winged man
Mark: winged lion
Luke: winged ox
John: winged eagle

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18
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What does atmospheric perspective mean?

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Illusions of 3D

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What is Utrecht Psalter known for

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Key Carolingian artist, lines, organ, Jesus with nimbus

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Vows of Benedictine (what do monks promise to do)?

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-obedience
-chastity
-stability

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Hildegard

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created troping (add words/music to chant) 77 chants composed

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22
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Progression of chant to Shakespeare

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chant > troupe > liturgical drama > morality play > Shakespeare

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miracle plays

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Jesus and Mary

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mystery plays

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Who was a traveling and begging monk (mendicant) that was also a troubador AND the FIRST italian poet to write in the vernacular
St. Francis
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the effort to understand the mysteries of God through logic and metaphysical studies
Scholastacism
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What modern work did theWho were traveling students, drunk, naughty monks?
Goliard monks
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What modern work did the Goliardic verse influence
"O Fortuna" by Carloff
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Who was one of the first to develop Scholastacism and wrote "Sic et non"
Peter Abelard
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Thomas Aquinas
-did NOT write in the vernacular -master of dialectic (developed process of thesis > antithesis > analysis > synthesis)
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who coined the phrase "The Dark Ages"
Petrarch
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Who wrote "My Secret"
Petrarch
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Who was the Father of Humanism, wrote sonnets, and was the start f the Reanaissance
Petrarch
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literary device: elaborate and surprising comparison between 2 apparently different things
conceit
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literary device: detailed praise or blame
Blason
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literary device: human qualities applied to an inanimate object
personification
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Wrote "The Decameron"
Boccaccio
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Did Boccacccio write in the vernacular
YES
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greatest English poet of the century who wrote the Canterbury tales
Chauncer
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Chaucer's death in 1400 marked the end of
the medieval period
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Did Chauncer write in the vernacular?
yes
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Did Dante write in the vernacular
yes
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Did Thomas Equinas write in the vernacular?
no
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Who invented Ars Nova Musicae and said that modern music was better than old music
Phillippe de Vitry
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Mensural notation
used from 1260-1600 -Phillipe de Vitry -symbols similar to whole/half/quarter
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When you have a repeated single melody which you repeat and apply a random rhythm to
Isorhythm
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Who was a poet/musician who wrote in fixed forms and was the first composer to write in 4 parts *with TOP voice carrying the melody*
Guillaume de Mauchaut
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Messe de Notre Dame
-most famous Mauchaut -four part mass, entire ordinary
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Who was a famous organist/organ builder
Landini
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Cimabue taught
Giotto
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Duccio taught
Martini
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polyptech
many panels
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predella
panel at the bottom
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nimbus
halos
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Giotto's frescoes in Assissi crumbled because of
an earthquake
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