Exam 8: The Early Middle Ages

__________ was one of the few great scholars of the early years of this period.

The feudal lord is also referred as a __________.

The Vikings were products of a feudal society.

The __________ is a liturgical dramatic form that began as an elaboration of Mass.

In the West,internationalism was an important part of the Middle Ages.

As part of the Carolingian "renaissance," scholars under the leadership of __________ attempted to reunite the fragments of classical civilization.

The Church clergy was divided into two groups: a secular clergy of Pope,bishops,and parish priests,and a more withdrawn clergy of monks and others.

St Bernard's preaching contributed to the spread of __________,which led to the softer,more ethereal Christianity of the High Gothic period.

What was the primary difference between Romanesque sculpture and earlier Christian sculpture?

What was the primary topic of medieval secular music?

St Thomas Aquinas used the "Grand Commentary" of the Muslim philosopher __________ as his model.

The monastery and the __________ were unusually orderly and stable during the Middle Ages.

__________ refers to medieval music consisting of Gregorian chant with an additional melodic line.

The Carolingian "renaissance" included a revival of __________ culture.

Painting became a largely __________ art after the fall of Rome.

The most widely adopted of all monastic rules is the __________.

The "Song of Roland" is an imaginative epic based on the real-life King __________.

The most common architectural structure during the Middle Ages was the __________.

__________ refers to the time in Western European history that occurred between Antiquity and the Renaissance.

__________ is a political and economic system in Europe from the ninth to the fifteenth century,based on the relation of lord to vassal.