west civ chap 12 – Flashcards
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How did Edward I counter Boniface VIII's move against secular taxation of the clergy?
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By declaring that all clerics who refused to pay the new state tax would henceforth be considered outlaws without legal protection
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In most places, struggles between noble and non-noble factions in Italian communes eventually led to
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takeovers by great regional nobles.
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In its broadest sense, the term medieval synthesis refers to which of the following?
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Attempts to harmonize all outside ideas with those of Christianity and to harmonize faith with reason
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In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, lepers were
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formally expelled from the community of Christians in special ceremonies.
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The paintings and sculpture created for Gothic cathedrals were
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often meant to be "read" as a story.
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Innocent III, the first pope to be trained at universities, came to believe that
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the pope was the supreme moral lawgiver, ruling in Christ's stead over all Christians.
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Whom did Dante choose as his guide through hell and purgatory?
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Virgil
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The thirteenth century can best be described as a period of which of the following?
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Contradictions and creative tension during which the first territorial states began to emerge, religious and secular authority grew apart, and the acquisition of knowledge rose
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Louis IX went on two crusades; for the duration of his first absence, France
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was capably ruled by Louis's mother, Blanche of Castile.
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Which region of Europe became the focal point in the dispute between the emperor and the papacy in the thirteenth century?
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Germany? NOT FRANCE
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During the reign of Louis IX in France, certain state institutions began to take shape and stabilize, for example the royal court of justice, which had a permanent seat in Paris called the
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When Christians charged Jews with blood libel, they accused them of
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Which of the following happened during the Great Famine?
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Peasants resisted heavy taxes imposed by rulers.
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The cortes of Castile-León were among the earliest examples in medieval Europe of
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representative assemblies.
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What Florentine artist of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries painted such works as Birth of the Virgin, which brought new depth and emotion to painting?
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Giotto
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Why did the church impose such harsh sanctions on heretics who refused to repent of their allegedly false beliefs?
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Church leaders believed that unrepentant heretics jeopardized the souls of those around them.
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Although Louis IX was generally supportive of the papacy, he simultaneously maintained the monarchy's independence from ecclesiastical authority, as exemplified by which of the following?
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His refusal to support the church's sentences of excommunication unless he was able to judge the merits of each case for himself
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Which of the following chronological series best reflects the political evolution of authority in the Italian city-states during the thirteenth century?
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signori, nobles, popolo...
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Which scholastic denied that human reason could be used to find God, proposing instead that human reason was dependent on divine illumination?
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john duns...
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Why did four popes excommunicate Frederick II?
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Controlled italy
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When Christians charged Jews with blood libel, they accused them of
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killing Christian children and using the children's blood in their Passover ritual.
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Which of the following proved most devastating for northern Europe in the 1310s and 1320s?
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The Great Famine
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Which of the following is evidence that the message of mendicant friars preaching in towns, cities, and villages was enthusiastically received?
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Laity who consciously modeled their lives after those of the friars
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Some women for whom religion was the center of their lives
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took the Fourth Lateran Council's pronouncement literally and ate nothing but the Eucharist.
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What development allowed musicians to become more precise in their performances?
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The introduction of a system of musical notation
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What feature of Gothic cathedrals made possible the telling of complicated stories through stained-glass windows?
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Pointed arches and flying buttresses, which allowed church walls to feature large windows for the first time
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The canonization of Louis IX
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instilled the French monarchy with tremendous prestige.
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Why did many kings and lords restrict moneylending to Jews?
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It benefited them financially, since they could tax the Jews heavily and, on occasion, even attack them to free themselves of their debts.
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The thirteenth century can best be described as a period of which of the following?
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Contradictions and creative tension during which the first territorial states began to emerge, religious and secular authority grew apart, and the acquisition of knowledge rose
