Exam 9: The High Middle Ages

Discuss the development and deployment of the Crusades.Elaborate on their effects on medieval society at large,as well as on the arts.

Hell,or __________,was the most popular part of medieval theatre.

__________ is a sculpture or painting of the dead Christ supported by Mary.

__________ is expression by means of symbols to make a broad commentary on human existence.

The medieval Church recognized seven deadly __________.

Ars Nova was facilitated by a new system of musical __________ that allowed nearly any rhythmic pattern to be written down.

The Holy Office of the __________ was charged with maintaining the purity of Christian thought-by any means necessary.

In their human qualities and personalized faces,the jamb statues on Chartres Cathedral illustrate the High Gothic style,or Gothic __________.

Unofficial crusades continued long after the official campaigns.

How would you characterize the move from earlier church styles to the Gothic cathedral? What does it tell us about the meaning of Christianity in this period?

The Doge's Palace in Venice combines European and __________ influences.

Compare and contrast a painting by Cimabue and Giotto.Discuss the innovations brought to painting by Giotto,and explain their likely artistic or social sources.

The texts of Aristotle entered Western Europe through __________ sources in Spain.

Merchant and craft __________ dominated trading cities.

Giotto's paintings are marked by a new __________.

Wars and plagues ultimately led to a greater reliance on __________.

Joan of Arc sought to end the violence of the __________.

Secularism was in place by the end of the fourteenth century.

What subjects inspired the musical compositions of Francesco Landini?

A revival of __________ was the primary cause of a rebirth of cities in the eleventh,twelfth,and thirteenth centuries.