Week XI: the High Middle Ages

Key words list

Peter Abelard -- Heloise (cf. Week IX)

Albertus Magnus (L "the Great")

St Anselm of Canterbury -- Cur Deus homo ("Why God Became Man"; cf. Week IX)

Avignon -- "Babylonian Captivity"

Beguines -- mysticism

Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) -- Notre Dame (Fr "Our Lady")

Boniface VIII (cf. Innocent III, Philip IV) -- Unam Sanctam

Cathars -- dualism -- Albigensians -- Albigensian Crusade -- Waldensians -- (papal) Inquisition ( ≠ Spanish Inquisition; cf. Week XIII) -- Montaillou (see Hunt et al., pp. 364-65)

Chrétien de Troyes

common law -- eyre courts (< L iter, "journey," i.e. itinerant courts)

commune (Italian) -- Lombard League -- popolo -- signori -- signoría

convent (NB: can refer both to "monastery for women" and "house for Franciscans / Dominicans")

cortesia -- courtesy -- courtliness -- courtly love

Dante Alighieri -- Divine Comedy -- allegory

Domesday Book -- Danegeld -- writ -- ministerials (Germany)

St Dominic -- Dominicans -- OP (ordo praedicatorum, "order of preachers")

Edward the Confessor -- Harold Goðwinsson (of Wessex) -- Haraldr harðráði, "Hard Ruler" (of Norway) -- William "the Bastard" (duke of Normandy) / William I "the Conqueror" (of England)

epic -- romance -- chanson de geste (OFr "song of deeds")

Eucharist -- communion -- transubstantiation ("change of substance" [of the consecrated Host, despite its unchanged appearance]) -- "eating God"

fideles ("faithful ones") -- fealty (< L fides; cf. Week VII)

feudal -- feudalism -- fief (cf. Week VII)

Florence

St Francis of Assisi -- Franciscans -- OFM (ordo fratrum minorum, "order of lesser brothers") -- St Clare of Assisi -- poverty -- usury

Frederick I Barbarossa ("red-beard") -- Frederick II stupor mundi (L "the wonder of the world") -- Holy Roman Empire (HRE) -- Hohenstaufen (Staufer) -- Ghibellines -- Welfs -- Guelphs -- Habsburgs

friars (cf. Fr frère, "brother") -- fraticelli (Ital "little brothers")

Giotto

Henry I (of England) -- Henry II (of England) -- Angevin (< Anjou) / Plantagenet -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Louis VII (of France)

Henry the Lion -- German princes

heresy -- heretics

Île-de-France

Innocent III -- papal monarchy -- papal curia (L "court") -- plenitude of power -- Fourth Lateran Council (Lateran IV) -- sacrament of marriage -- clandestine marriage -- transubstantiation (cf. Eucharist)

John Duns Scotus

knight (< OE cneoht, "boy, lad"; cf. German Knecht, "boy, servant") -- Fr chevalier ("horseman") -- German Ritter ("rider") -- miles (Classical L "soldier"; Medieval L "knight")

lepers -- leprosaria (L "leper houses") -- Jews as serfs of the crown -- moneylending -- usury (cf. St Francis) -- blood libel -- William of Norwich (cf. Week X)

Liberal Arts -- trivium: grammar, rhetoric, logic -- quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy

lord -- vassal -- vassalage -- homage -- fealty (cf. feudal)

Lorris -- burgher (cf. Fr bourgeois, lit. "inhabitant of a [recent] city") -- corvée (serf's obligatory service) -- provost (Fr prévôt)

Louis VI ("the Fat") -- Louis VII -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Abbot Suger of St Denis (cf. Week IX)

mendicant ("beggar") orders -- preaching -- tertiaries (cf. St Dominic & St Francis)

monophonic / monophony (Gk "one sound") -- polyphonic / polyphony (Gk "many sounds") -- chant / plainchant -- motet

Muscovite Russia (cf. Week X)

natio (L "nation"; at universities)

parliament -- Simon de Montfort -- Edward I -- commons -- outlaws -- Estates General (Fr) -- cortes (Sp; cf. Week XIII) -- Alfonso X "el sabio" (Sp "the wise")

parlement (Fr; ≠ parliament [Engl])

Philip II Augustus -- Bouvines (battle) -- Louis IX ("St Louis")

Philip IV ("the Fair") (cf. Edward I, Boniface VIII)

The Philosopher (= Aristotle)

Richard I coeur-de-lion ("the Lion-Hearted") -- John sans terre ("Lackland") -- Magna Carta (L "great charter") -- freemen

Roman de la Rose (OFr Romance of the Rose)

scholasticism

shire -- sheriff (< "shire reeve [overseer]")

Stamford Bridge (battle) -- Hastings (battle) -- Bayeux Tapestry -- castles

St Thomas Aquinas -- Summa Theologica / Summa Theologiae ("the summa of theology")

St Thomas Becket -- Archbishop of Canterbury -- (jurisdiction over) criminous clerics

Ste-Chappelle -- Gothic architecture -- stained glass (cf. Week IX)

summa (L "summary / summit / summation")

sumptuary laws (aimed at distinguishing Jews from Christians) -- pointed hats -- badges (cf. lepers)

troubadours (Occitan) / trouvères (Old Fr) / Minnesingers (German) -- jongleurs (singers/musicians/performers/jugglers)

"two swords" doctrine -- sacerdotium (L "the [sphere of the] sacred," "the priesthood")