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Chapter 16
Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2009

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Cluny Reform
Definition
*clergy shouldn't submit to kings
*separation of church and state
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Pope Gregory VII
Definition
*king appoint bishops to handle estates
*ring and staff to symbolize
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Henry IV
Definition
*Considered Gregory's action a direct challenge to his authority
*had German bishops be independent of Greg
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Investiture Controversy
Definition
*no bishops w/ ring & staff
*emperor grant bishops land
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Crusades
Definition
*religious wars by church against infidels
*tried numerous times to take Jerusalem
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Saladin
Definition
*King of Egypt and Syria
*reconquered Jerusalem
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Guild
Definition
*association of merchants or craftsmen offering protection and set rules for work and products
*gained voice in government
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Scholasticism
Definition
*ppl thought truth was known, but needed to be organized,defended
*dialectic discoered truth by pondering arguments against it
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Peter Abelard
Definition
*boldest and most controversial for new aristotle learning
*wed Heloise, tutoree, in secret
*caught, ended up as a monk
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Regular Clergy
Definition
*monks and nuns who belongs to religious orders apart from the world
*2 orders to preach church's mission
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Secular Clergy
Definition
*Parish clergy who didn't belong to religious order
*lived and worked directly of the world
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Vernacular
Definition
*townswomen given opportunity to learn this literacy
*everyday language spoken by the people
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William I the Conqueror
Definition
*invaded England
*crowned king
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Magna Carta
Definition
*"The Great Charter"
*limited power of King John
*English nobility forced him to sign
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Capetian
Definition
*powerful feudal princes
*secured territory around Paris, which was the center of French gov. & culture
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Louis IX
Definition
*inherited a unified and secure kingdom
*golden age of scholasticism
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Hundred Year's War
Definition
*war b/w France and England
*England won battles, but France won the war
*Joan of Arc
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JOan of Arc
Definition
*Changed course of war
*charged w/ witchcraft and burned
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Black Death
Definition
*bubonic plague killed millions of Europeans
*spread along trade routes
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Pope Boniface VIII
Definition
*opposed taxation of clergy
*authority subject to spiritual power of church
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Philip the Fair
Definition
*king of France
*ruthless campaign against Pope Boniface
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Great Schism
Definition
*two or three rival popes
*1378-1415
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Renaissance
Definition
*revival of ancient learning
*Italy in 14th and 15th centuries
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Humanism
Definition
*Latin & Greek classics of the Church of Fathers
*promote rebirth of ancient norms & values
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Petrarch
Definition
*father of humanism
*celebrated ancient Rome in his writings
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Dante
Definition
*Vita Nuova and Divine Comedy w/ Patriarch's sonnets form Italian vernacular literature
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Machiavelli
Definition
*Italian Political Theorist
*advised Renaissance princes w/ good deception and create fear for success
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Kiev
Definition
*Russia's dominant city
*political and religious center
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Golden Horde
Definition
*Mongol rulers of Russia
*1240-1480
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Ivan III the Great
Definition
*N Russia under Moscow's control
*ended Mongol rule
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Moscow
Definition
*controlled N Russia
*replaced Kiev as political and religious center
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Isabella and Ferdinand
Definition
*Isabella-Castille
*Ferdinand-Aragon
*subdue realms, venture abroad, secure borders
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Wars of Roses
Definition
*after hundred year's war
*in England b/w 2 royal family rival branches
*white and red roses
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Henry VII
Definition
*Lancastrian monarchy
*challenged by Duke of York
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