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Germanic Tribes
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Tribal folk who followed a migratory existence - lived in preurban village communities and frequently raided & plundered nearby lands
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Fealty
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Loyalty; the fidelity of the warrior to his chieftan
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Beowulf
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3000 line epic - first monumental literary composition in a European vernacular language - tale of daring Scandinavian prince
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Charlemagne
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Emporer of the Romans - Frankish chieftan Charles the Great-leader of the Holy Wars - wanted to restore Roman under christain leadership
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Carolingian Renaissance
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A time of copying the manuscripts & making of liturgical and devotional objects - started by Charlemagne
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Cloissone
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enamel work produced by pouring molten colored glass between thin gold partitions, any object ornament in this way
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Feudalism
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The sytem of political organization prevailing in Europe 9-15 century - basis is the exchange of land for military defense/service
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Investiture
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the procedure by which a feudal lord granted a vassal control over a fief
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Chivalry
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a code of behavior practiced by upper class men and women of medieval society
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Vikings
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Scandinavain seafarers - first to colonize iceland -set up colony in Greenland - were master shipbuilders -Norsemen - "Rus"
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William of Normandy
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Leader of Vikings - led 5000 vikings across English channel to sieze throne of England
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Norman Conquest
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Conquest of throne of England by Vikings - marked transfer of power in England from Anglo Saxon rulers to Norman noblemen & thus to France
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Serf
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an unfree peasant
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Fief
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in feudal society, land/property given to a warrior in return for military service
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Christian Crusades
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began as a effort to rescue Jerasalem from Muslim turks - 11th to 13th century - began as religious became economical
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Primogeniture
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the principle by which a fief was passed from father to son
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Medieval Romance
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a tale of adventure that supplanted the older Chanson de Geste and that deals with knights,king,ladies acting under impulse of love,religious faith or desire for adventure
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Code of Courtly Love
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longing of a nobleman for a usually unattainable woman - basis for concepts of romantic love in Western literature & life
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Chretien de Troyes
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Author of "Lancelot"
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Lancelot
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a knight in King Arthur's court - Guinevere's lover - dramatizes the feminization of the chivalric ideal
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Sacraments
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a sacred act or pledge in medieval Christianity - a visible sign of God's grace
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Purgatory
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intermediate realm occupied by the soul after death and before the last judgement - soul could benefit from prayers and good works on their behalf
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Leading mystic of the twelfth century - wrote Know the Ways of the Lord - wrote treaties on medicine, science & wrote hymns
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Pope Innocent III
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Wrote On the Misery of the Human Condition -one of Christendoms most influential popes
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Memento mori
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"remember death" a warning of the closeness of death and the need to prepare for ones own death
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Morality Play
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Medieval drama that dealt with the struggle between good and evil and the destiny of the soul in the hereafter
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Allegory
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an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
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Everyman
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essentially a moral allegory that illustrates the pilgramage from life to death, exposition of the Catholitic priesthood in helping christian achieve salvation
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Dante Alighieri
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Florentine poet - author of Divine Comedy, Commedia Divinia
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Excommunication
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Ecclesiatical censure that excludes the individual from receiving the sacraments
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Interdict
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the excommunication of an entire city or state - used to dissuade secular rulers from opposing papal policy
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Heresy
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denial of the revealed truths or Orthodox doctrine by a baptized member of the church, an opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma
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Inquisition
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A special court designed to stamp out heresy - brought to trial people whole local townspeople denounced as heretics
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Romanesque Style (characteristics)
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Round arches and uniform system of stone vaults in the upper zones of the nave & side aisles
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Christian Pilgrimage
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Christians traveled to the shrine to seek pardon from sins or pay homage to a particular saint/healing or miracle cure
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Relics
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The remains of saints and martyrs - objects of holy veneration - ie: piece of cross Jesus crucified on
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reliquaries
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Decorated container that held the relics - sometimes made in the shape of the relic
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Tympanum
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Semi-circular space enclosed by the lintel over a doorway and the arch above it
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Gothic Style (characteristics)
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Sophisticated and majestic expression of an age of faith - clear break with classical past - dynamic system of thrusts & counterthrusts, soared heavenly, infused form with symbolism
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Flying buttress
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A flying buttress is a free-standing buttress attached to the main structure by an arch or a half-arch.
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Cult of the Virgins
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Inspired worship at thrones in Mary's honor-Mary as second Eve-woman who redeemed humankind from damnation
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Stained Glass(symbolism)
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lux nova - new light - symbolic equivalent of God - windows were mediators of God's love-could transport Christian from th slime of this earth to the purity of heaven
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Santiago de Compostela
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Saint James Major was said to have brought Chrisianity to Spain - martyred on his return to Judea - body recovered & buried at Compostela
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