What was the medieval way of life based upon the ownership and use of land?

What was the medieval way of life based upon the ownership and use of land?

Feudalism

What did the king call the land that he kept for his own personal use?

Crown land.

What was the code of conduct for the nobility and knights?

Chivalry

A family’s colorful design worn on armor and shields for identification was called ____________.

Coat of Arms

Name the sport in which to knights fought to unhorse each other.

Jousting

Peasants who worked the manors were called ___________.

Serfs

What were minstrels?

musicians who played stringed instruments and sang ballads of love and war

A __________ was piece of land in the feudal system.

fief

A ________ officially became a knight around age 21.

squire

The church forbade fighting from Friday to Sunday by proclaiming the _______ of God.

Truce

_____________ was the lord’s land worked by the serfs

Demesne

The ________ crusade met with limited success, establishing four kingdoms in Palestine.

First

The ________ crusade was led by great kings, including Richard I.

Third

____________________ preached for the Second Crusade.

Bernard of Clairvaux

________ was the sultan of Egypt who successfully united the Muslims against the Crusaders.

Saladin

a _________ was a middle class town.

Burg

__________ was known for wool.

Flanders

_____________ from Scandinavia pillaged the coastline of Europe and England.

Vikings (Norsemen)

A _________ was an association of trade unions.

guild

The _________ were the family of powerful bankers from Florence.

Medici

________ churches are known for their tall walls and large, pointed windows

Gothic

_______________ was known as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

Wycliffe

___________ Was an early Medieval scientist from England.

Bacon

______________ preached the truth of God’s word in Bohemia.

John Huss

___________ was a fiery preacher in Florence.

Savonarola

________________ wrote the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer

The oldest German university was located at __________.

Prague

The first medieval university was established in ____________.

Salerno

The terrible ___________ killed 1/3 to ½ of the entire population of Europe.

Black Death (Plague)

_____________ combined Greek philosophy with Roman theology.

Scholasticism

___________ promoted scholasticism and Thomism.

Aquinas

People who used their own money to support the arts were called __________.

patrons

__________________, a German printer, invented the movable-type printing press.

Johann Gutenberg

He invented it in about the year _______ .

1440

_________ was known as the “Father of Humanism.”

Petrarch

The only book of lasting importance to be produced during the Italian Renaissance was “The Prince”, by_____________.

Machiavelli

____________ most famous painting was Descent from the Cross.

Giotto’s

_____________ was considered one of the three geniuses and is perhaps best known for his painting The School of Athens.

Raphael

_________________ , another of the 3 geniuses, painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper in addition to accomplishments in many other fields.

Leonardo da Vinci

_____________ may have been the greatest artist of all time, painting the walls and ceilings of the Sistine Chapel and sculpting David and Moses.

Michelangelo

____________________ wrote the classic The Imitation of Christ.

Thomas a Kempis

_______________ began the Brethren of the Common Life.

Gerhard Groote.