the early medieval world (ch. 5)

Question 1

the days of the week are derived from the names of what Saxon gods?

Answer 1

Tiw, Woden, Thor, and Frigg

Question 2

the days of the week are derived from the names of the Saxon gods: (state day of week they correspond with)

Answer 2

Tuesday – Tiw
Wednesday – Woden
Thursday – Thor
Friday – Frigg

Question 3

the Saxon word “bury” can be translated as what?

Answer 3

fort

Question 4

the Saxon word “chester” can be translated as what?

Answer 4

camp

Question 5

what were free men who owned farms of 90-100 acres?

Answer 5

churls

Question 6

Anglo Saxon law was based on the idea of the what? (or “life price” of an individual)

Answer 6

wergeld

Question 7

What epic poem provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land?

Answer 7

Beowulf

Question 8

One of its most notable literary features, common to Old English literature, is its what? (OR KENNINGS) substituted for the usual names of a person or thing?

Answer 8

reliance on compound phrases

Question 9

Around 563, an Irish monk, Columba did what?

Answer 9

founded a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona

Question 10

Augustine is credited with doing what?

Answer 10

building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London

Question 11

Bishop Eadfrith designed what?

Answer 11

the Lindisfarne Gospels

Question 12

who made the first Celtic cross (he also made the mark of the Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument)

Answer 12

St. Patrick

Question 13

On Christmas day, 800 CE, Pope Leo III crowned who emperor of the Roman Empire?

Answer 13

Charlemagne

Question 14

Ronald’s horn was made from what?

Answer 14

ivory of an elephant’s tusk

Question 15

the strict and unwritten code of conduct that guided a knight consisted of: (3 things)

Answer 15

courage in battle
loyalty to his lord and peers
a courtesy verging on reverence toward women

Question 16

what imposed on all monasteries throughout Charlemagne’s Frankish kingdom?

Answer 16

the rule of Benedict of Nursia

Question 17

the dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as what?

Answer 17

refectory

Question 18

Hilda, abbess of Whitby, ran what? (this place was a community of both monks and nuns)

Answer 18

one of the most prominent Anglo-Saxon monasteries

Question 19

a ____ refers to a musical note used in Gregorian chants?

Answer 19

neum

Question 20

what documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066?

Answer 20

the Bayeux Tapestry

Question 21

The Domesday Book resulted from a call by William I of Normandy for a complete survey of England so he could do what?

Answer 21

more accurately determine how much tax he could raise to provide a new army

Question 22

Chartres claimed as its relic the what?

Answer 22

the tunic the Virgin Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ

Question 23

Vezelay claimed as its relic what?

Answer 23

the bones of Mary Magdalene

Question 24

what is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like half a cylinder?

Answer 24

barrel vault?

Question 25

what refers to the wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church?

Answer 25

voussoir

Question 26

what refers to an almond shape oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists?

Answer 26

mandorla

Question 27

Pope Innocent III was the author of what? (whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church)

Answer 27

On the Misery of the Human Condition

Question 28

what is the translation for memento mori?

Answer 28

the reminder of death

Question 29

Odo of Cluny is often credited with developing one of the fist effective systems of musical notation, a method that does what?

Answer 29

uses the letters A through G to name the seven notes of the Western scale

Question 30

Guido of Arezzo introduced the idea of what?

Answer 30

depicting notes on a staff of lines so that the same note always appears on the same line

Question 31

Venic manipulated the Fourth Crusade to its advantage, resulting in what?

Answer 31

it becoming one of the most powerful city states in the eastern Mediterranean

Question 32

In the decade she lived in Poitiers, Elanor and her daughter, countess of Champagne, established that city as the center of what?

Answer 32

secular culture and literary movement that celebrated the art of courtly love

Question 33

Beatriz de Dia composed what?

Answer 33

"Cruel are the pains I've suffered"

Question 34

Chretien de Troyes composed what? which centered on the adventures of King Arthur's court

Answer 34

Lancelot

Question 35

Lancelot is considered an example of what?

Answer 35

medieval romance