Chapter 9 Reading HUM 111 – Flashcards
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Romances told stories of love and adventure and were carefully attuned to the interests and concerns of
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women
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The French Parlement never attained the importance of Parliament in England because
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the French nobility, unlike the English nobility, was exempt from taxation
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The Magna Carta, signed by King John of England, was a
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legal document defining particular rights of nobles and freemen and limiting royal power
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To the territories he inherited from his father, Frederick Barbarossa, King Henry VI added
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Sicily
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Secular women like Heloise who wished to continue their education beyond convent school could
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be taught individually by a tutor
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King John signed the Magna Carta
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to define the rights of nobles and limit his power, doing so only because his barons forced him into it
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By the end of the thirteenth century, _________ had become the largest Spanish kingdom
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Castile
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Upon admission to university, medieval students typically spent four years studying the liberal arts, which meant
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advanced work in Latin grammar, rhetoric, and logic
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Perhaps some of the focus on the status and role of noblewomen in places such as Scandinavia, southern Europe, or Aquitaine could be seen in
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the evolution of the queen in the game of chess
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Anselm argued that
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human ideas of goodness had been instilled by God, a being about which nothing greater can be conceived
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Evidenced by the lifestyle of Frederick II, the culture of medieval Sicily
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included many cultures such as Norman, Latin, Byzantine, and Muslim Arabic.
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Which Crusade saw three European kings personally join?
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The Third Crusade (Richard and the Lionheart from England, France's Philip Augustus, the Holy Roman Empire's Frederick Barbarossa)
