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18 Cards in this Set
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1. Magna Carta
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a charter of liberty and political rights obtained from King John of England by his rebellious barons at Runnymede, one monumental point said the King is not above the law
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2. flagellants
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Believing that asceticism (practicing self-discipline) could atone for humanity’s sins and win God’s forgiveness, flagellants wandered from town to town flogging themselves and each other with whips
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3. pogroms
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organized massacres (against Jews)
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4. Jacquerie
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1358, a peasant revolt in France against noble landowners, caused by: destruction of normal order by the Black Death and subsequent economic dislocation and ravages by the Hundred Years’ War.
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5. dauphin
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next in line to be king of France
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6. gabelle
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(in France) salt tax
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7. taille
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(in France prior to 1789) tax levied on common people by the king
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papal
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of or relating to the pope or papacy
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papal bull
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a letter by the church/pope
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Unam Sanctum
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most important in a series of papal bulls, issued in 1302, it was the strongest statement ever made by a pope on the supremacy of the spiritual authority over the temporal authority, directed towards the French king Philip IV
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conciliarism
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a theory taken up by numbers of churchmen after the Great Schism, a belief that only a general council of the church could end the schism and bring reform to the church in its “heads and members”
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vernacular
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the language of the ordinary people in a particular region, country, or territory
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Dante Alighieri
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(1265-1321), from Florence, his masterpiece, written in Italian vernacular was the Divine Comedy-the story of a soul’s progression to salvation
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Francesco Petrarch
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(1304-1374), from Florence, considered one of the greatest European lyric poets
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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(1313-1375), 14th Century Italian writer, he too wrote poetry but is widely known for his prose, also from Florence, best known work is the Decameron -set in the time of the Black Death
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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(c.1340-1400) English vernacular, famous for Canterbury Tales-collection of stories told by a group of twenty-nine pilgrims journeying from the London suburb of Southwark to the tomb of Saint Thomas a Becket at Canterbury.
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Christine de Pizan
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(c.1364-1430) French prose work in defense of women, The Book of the City of Ladies, refutes antifeminist attacks
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Ecclesiastical
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related to the church
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