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Dante's "Divine Comedy" depicts the poet's mythical journey through:

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Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven

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Europe was transformed radically in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries because of:

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All of these

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King Frederick II of Germany:

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Pursued his grandfather's policy of supporting the German princes while enforcing imperial rights throughout the empire

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I'm the twelfth century, the central focus for Christianity was:

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The mass

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Walde's reform movement in the late twelfth century was considered heretical by the church because the Waldensians did not:

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Accept the church's authority and directives on the issue of lay preaching

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Innocent III was the most successful pope in the High Middle Ages because he:

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Successfully disciplined Kong's and heretics, and defined the central dogmas of the church

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Compared with early medieval Christianity, Catholic spirituality in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries seems more concerned with:

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An intense identification with Christ, his life, and his sufferings

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The rise of lay education in twelfth and thirteenth century Europe was important because through it:

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People were increasingly able to pursue nonreligious lines of inquiry, and western culture ultimately became more independent of religion than other cultures

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Eleanor of Aquitaine was a central character in the development of:

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A change in how women were viewed in European courts

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By the early fourteenth century, the English Parliament had emerged as:

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All of these

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Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German poet known primarily for his:

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Story depicting the search for the Holy Grail

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Upon admission to medieval university, students typically studied the liberal arts, which meant:

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Advanced work in Latin grammar, rhetoric, and logic

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The French kingdom of the Capetians had shrunk dramatically under the rule of _________, who lost his wife and lands to the English king.

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Louis VII

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The High Middle Ages witnessed the birth of a new political structure known as:

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The National monarchy

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The increasing persecution of European Jews in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries should be interpreted in the context of:

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General Christian concerns about heresy and the growing suspicion of Jews at all levels of society

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The rapid growth of monastic houses, such as the Cistercians, in the twelfth century meant that more men were becoming monks and that:

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A religious engaged laity was supporting the church through the donation of money and lands

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Modern universities can trace their origin ultimately back to the

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(A or E) Monastery schools that trained priests OR Sorbonne established by Charlemagne

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By the end of the thirteenth century, ___________ had become the largest and most influential Spanish kingdom.

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Castile

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In the second half of the eleventh century, educated Westerners vastly increased their knowledge when:

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Important works of Greet and Arabic literature were translated into Latin

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The essential features of the Romanesque architectural style are:

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Rounded arches, massive stone walls, and small windows

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Compared to the popes active in the early Middle Ages, popes in the High Middle Ages were:

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More concerned with defining orthodoxy and rooting out heresy

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The term "university" originally meant a:

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Corporation or guild

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Chivalry:

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Was a means of legitimizing social positions acquired through either bravery or skill

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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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Students who attended medieval universities:

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All of these

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The growth of schools in twelfth-century Europe can be attributed primarily to:

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The general economic revival and the emergence of strong government

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Frederick Barbarossa:

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All of these

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The tradition of French administration that balanced local diversity of custom with bureaucratic centralization in Paris began with:

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Philip II, "Augustus"

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Medieval scholastics taught that:

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There was a fundamental compatibility between human reason and experience and the divine teachings in the Bible

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The Magna Carta was signed by King John:

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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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The author of the important medieval theological work "Book of the Sentences" was:

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Peter Lombard

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The seven liberal arts that the universities of Europe established as their curriculum was comprised of the:

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Trivium and quadrivium

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The medieval society depicted by vernacular epic poems in the eleventh century can be best described as:

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Bloody and violent

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The Fourth Lateran Council:

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All of these

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By 1200, access to some form of education was:

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Open to all who wanted an education

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King Henry II's important dispute with Archbishop Thomas Becker was related to:

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Whoever ultimately had legal jurisdiction over priests and church courts

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In addition to the expansion of "Inquisition" trials, what mechanism did the Latin Church use to control popular heresy in the thirteenth century?

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The church launched a full-scale internal crusade against the Cathars

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Which Christian figure became the center of a rapidly expanding "cult" in the twelfth century and the namesake of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris as well as other places?

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The Virgin Mary

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