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26 Cards in this Set
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Abbot |
-superior (leader) in a community of monks |
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Age of Faith |
- another name for the Early Middle ages due to the fact that the Church was the dominant force throughout Europe |
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Carolingian Dynasty |
- series of Frankish rulers lasting from 751 to 987 Charles Martel Pepin the Short Charlemagne Louis the Pious Lothair and Louis the German &Charles the Bald |
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Charles Martel |
- carolingian monarch of Franks -responsible for the defeat of Muslims in the battle of Tours in 732 -ended muslim threat to western Europe |
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Christendom |
christian-dominated Western Europe of the Middle ages |
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Clergy |
a body of church officials who preform religious services |
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Clovis |
- first important ruler of Merovingian Dynasty -considered the founder of the French state - defeated the last great Roman army in Gaul and went on to form the first Frankish Kingdom |
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Count |
a medieval European term for middle level nobility -equivalent to an Earl in england |
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Dark Ages |
-400-900 - cultural decline after the fall of ROme -little records or evidence of this time period - also kown as the Early Middle Ages |
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Eric the Red |
-discovered greenland while banished from his country -named it greenland to entice colonists to settel |
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Franks |
-germanic people who lived and held power in Gaul -first leader was clovis -by 511 they had united into one kingdom and they controlled the largest and strongest parts of europe |
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knight |
- a mounted warrior -served to protect his lord and king in exchange for land -followed strict code of chivalry |
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lay investure |
-appointment of bishops and abbots by secular rulers -often in exchange for temporal protection |
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Leif Ericson |
- a norse(viking) explorer who discovered Newfoundland and was possibly the first european to travel to North America -father was Eric the Red |
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longship |
the name of a viking longboat |
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lord |
landowner who protected vassal, granted fiefs, defended honor of vassals family, guaranteed the vassal in justice court |
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medieval |
another name for middle ages |
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Merovingian Dynasty |
-family that ruled the franks from the 500s to the 700s - the kingdom of CLovis and Charles Martel help spread christianity throughout France and expanded its territories |
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Missi Dominiei |
-agents of charlemagne who traveled throughout the empire to check the condition of roads, listen to grievances, and see that justice was done |
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monk |
- a man who has taken a solemn vow to devote his life to prayer and service in a monastery |
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Pepin the Short |
-Charles martel's son -defeated Lombards and gave their land to the Pope -territory became the Papel States |
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Pope Gregory 1 |
-Broadened the authority of papacy or popes office beyond spiritual role -papacy became secular power involved in politics |
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saint benedict |
- in 6th century, wrote a set of rules to guide comunity of monks he founded - community became a model for monasticism in the Catholic Church and the Benedictine rule came to be used by other monastic groups |
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saint patrick |
-bishop remembered for his work in ireland -taught people about the holy trinity using a shamrock |
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scholastica |
sister of Benedict -adapted his rule for nuns |
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Treaty of Verdum |
-treaty that divided up the empire of Charlemagne after his death |
