Lualdi Chapter Themes Flashcards
What is Lualdi 10.1 about?
The Commendia’s of Venice and Genoa. These are contracts that were for business and markets in the Medieval period. They represent the beginning of reform through commercial means from the barter system.
What is Lualdi 10.2 about?
The letters of Excommunication between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. These show the final divide between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. They specifically argue over investiture and whether a Pope has the authority to create Emperors or not.
What is Lualdi 10.3 about?
Pope Urban II’s speech where he calls the first Crusade at Clermont in 1095. In this speech Urban urges the young men of Europe who kill each other to spend their time killing Islamic infidels instead which they will be forgiven for.
What is Lualdi 10.4 about?
The Arab responses to the First Crusade. One perspective is from Ibn al-Althir who details how the French took Antioch then the Muslim forces tried to fight but fleed and lost thousands and how the Franks took Jerusalem.
What is Lualdi 10.5 about?
The power of William I which is expressed in A) the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which details William I wisdom and abilities and even has a poem. B) Domesday Survey of Norfolk which talks about how powerful and rich William I’s domains were.
What is Lualdi 11.1 about?
The new learning experienced in the rebirthed Middle Ages and Peter Abelard shares his large abilities as a scholar in Bible and other subjects.
What is Lualdi 11.2 about?
Scholarly pursuits in university. It details the life of Medieval Universities and specifically King Frederick I, King Phillip II, and a poem from a student show how these students could be well learned, criminals, wanderers and such. They even made songs of wandering.
What is Lualdi 11.3 about?
The courtly love of the Middle Ages. Specifically the Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart poem that shows how vicious fighting also had chivalric elements.
What is Lualdi 11.4 about?
This is St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare, their selected works that show how Religion at the high Middle Ages was in full swing.
What is Lualdi 11.5 about?
The sack of Constantinople from the eyes of the Annals of Niketas Choniates who details the horrors that were experienced in that sacking.
What is Lualdi 12.1 about?
Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae reconciling faith and reason by taking Aristotle and showing where he was wrong and right in the context of the faith.
What is Lualdi 12.2 about?
Hadewijch of Brabant wrote some letters about how women saw a relationship with Christ in a mystical and erotic way from the love aspect.
What is Lualdi 12.3 about?
Thomas of Monmouth on how martyr St. William of Norwhich was treated as an outsider by his own people for associating with the Jews and how the Jews took him and slayed him.
What is Lualdi 12.4 about?
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and its imagining of Hell in Inferno which is revolutionary because old seemingly pious philosophers end up in Hell along with Popes.
What is Lualdi 12.5 about?
Pope Boniface VIII on how the Pope had far reaching authority over rules and Europe. King Philip IV of France responds to Boniface’s papal bull and says that he can abuse clerical power as he chooses.
