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The High and Late Middle Ages
Europe from about 1000-1400
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Undergraduate 2
04/19/2010

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Investiture Controversy
Definition
1075
Fight between HRE Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII over who had more power; Henry drove Gregory out of Rome; Gregory excommunicated Henry; Henry did penance standing (barefoot in the snow) to be absolved...Henry won and controlled the papacy
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Cardinal Peter Damien
Definition
reformer who was afraid of that the clergy were losing their morals; he was especially against married clergy and for celibacy, however he only enforced the rule about marriage to new priests (those already illegally married did not have to get rid of their wives)
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Cardinal Humbert
Definition
rich monk from Mourmoutiers who excommunicated the Greek Orthodox church without permission, wrote three books against simony and royal interference in church matters
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Pope Gregory VII
Definition
Investiture Controversy- claimed the right to control secular and religious offices
Became pope in 1073
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Great Schism (1054)
Definition
split between the East and West churches
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simony
Definition
buying and selling of church officers, according to Humbert monarchs should not even be present at consecrations
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Dicatatus Papae
Definition
27 statements of papal power that said the pope could depose any monarch, said no king could get you into heaven, under Gregory VII's reign
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HRE Henry IV
Definition
Investiture Controversy
Disliked by aristocrats who elected a new king, but his son Henry V fixed everything during his reign
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Canossa
Definition
place where Henry IV did penance to reverse his excommunication
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Pope Clement III
Definition
persuaded Henry II and Philip II to undertake the Third Crusade (The King's Crusade)
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St. Thomas a Becket
Definition
friend of Henry II who he appointed to be archbishop of Canterbury but then became religious; had disagreements with Henry over the power of the church; murdered in the cathedral by Henry's followers
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Concordat of Worms
Definition
1122
return to the status quo of before the Investiture Controversy
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Seljuk Turks
Definition
Sunni Muslim dynasty that controlled the Middle East between the 11th-14th centuries; conquered the Persians; power struggles allowed the First Crusade to be successful
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Romanus Diogenes
Definition
ERE reigned 1068-1071; wanted to rebuild the military and conquer the Turks; was afraid the Turks were going to attack him so he attacked them; captured at the Battle of Manzikert
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Battle of Manzikert
Definition
1071
ERE vs. Turks, Turks victorious
led to Nicaea falling under Turkish rule in 1078
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Alexius Comnenus
Definition
ERE; wanted to regain the territories lost at Manzikert and needed money but didn't want to ask for it; finally asked the pope who in turn called the Council of Clermont
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Pope Urban II
Definition
called the Council of Clermont where he gave a speech about the need to invade the Holy Land because the Turks were a threat to the ERE and if the ERE fell then the WRE would fall next; called on men's honor as warriors and Christians
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Council of Clermont
Definition
Nov 1095
rally for the First Crusade
held in France
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People's Crusade
Definition
April-Oct 1096
peasants (men, women, children, and the elderly) decided to go on Crusade after hearing Urban II; most were slaughtered upon arrival
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Peter the Hermit
Definition
leader of the People's Crusade, was not killed because he sent everyone else along first
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Count Emicho
Definition
launched the German Crusade in 1096 (persecution of Jews)
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Nicaea
Definition
important Christian city that had fallen under Turkish rule
first objective of the First Crusade was to recapture it; siege and battle in May 1097; heavy losses on both sides but the Christians eventually gained control
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Dorylaeum
Definition
battle site in 1097 where the Crusaders won access to travel freely through Anatolia
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Edessa
Definition
Count Bohemond (leader of the Crusade) decided he wanted to control it so he separated his army from everyone else's and went there to try and gain control; he was successful because they made a promise that his friend Baldwin would be the next ruler
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Antioch
Definition
second objective of the First Crusade was to recapture Antioch; laid siege to the city in Oct 1097 but were not prepared...morale was kept up when the holy lance was "found"
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Kerbogha
Definition
Turkish military leader who attacked Antioch and the Crusaders
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Peter Bartholomew
Definition
soldier and mystic; claimed to have seen the holy lance and found it
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Adhemar of le Puy
Definition
bishop and spiritual leader of the Crusade; established discipline
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Zengi
Definition
Muslim military leader who laid siege to a Crusader fortress; recaptured Edessa
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Nur-ed-Din
Definition
Zengi's son; attacked Christians in the areas surrounding Antioch
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Bernard of Clairvaux
Definition
Cistercian monk who founded his own monastery in Clairvaux; disliked Peter Abelard, said he was a heretic, said people could only know God emotionally; advocated for the Second Crusade;
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King Louis VII
Definition
led the Second Crusade w/ Conrad of Germany but abandoned his men in Southern Turkey; married to Eleanor of Acquitane
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Eleanor of Acquitane
Definition
recruited for and feudal leader of Second Crusade; Queen of France and then England; only evidence for courtly love came from her court
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Prince Raymond of Antioch
Definition
Eleanor's uncle; prince of Antioch; won a power struggle with the ERE for control of Antioch
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Damascus
Definition
allied with Jerusalem against Zengi
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Battle of Hattin
Definition
1187
Jerusalem vs. Muslims
Crusaders captured and killed in Israel
the Holy Land was returned to the Muslims
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Saladin
Definition
Kurdish Muslim leader who wiped out the Crusaders during the Second Crusade; regained Jerusalem; signed a treaty with Richard II allowing Christians access to Acre, Jaffa, and Jerusalem
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Richard the Lionheart
Definition
king of England; leader in the Second and Third Crusades; conquered Cyprus
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Templars
Definition
RC religious order; bankers, knights; influenced by Bernard of Clairvaux who supported them and wrote on the proper behavior of knights
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Knights Hospitallers
Definition
established to build hospitals and protect pilgrims in the Holy Land; ordered with the care and defense of the Holy Land
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Teutonic Knights
Definition
German RC order founded to help Crusaders and build hospitals
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trivium
Definition
rhetoric, logic, and grammar
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quadrivium
Definition
arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy
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Peter Abelard
Definition
really smart guy who knew he was smart; had a love affair with student Heloise; beginnings of dialectical thinking although he was about 100 years too early; advocated faith through reason; placed on trial for heresy by Bernard
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Sic et Non
Definition
Abelard's book "Yes and No," talks about contradictions in the Bible
seen as mocking the church
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Goldiardic poetry
Definition
satiric poetry from the 12-13th centuries; written in Latin, mocking the church
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chanson de geste
Definition
poetry about great deeds, the world of feudalism; often set in the time of Charlemagne although there was no feudalism when Charlemagne ruled; examples are Raoul de Cambrai and The Song of Roland
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troubador lyrics
Definition
lyric poetry circa 11th century before people could read
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romance
Definition
genre of literature that was a blend of Northern and Southern literary traditions; popular in England and France; often about King Arthur; about the individual on a divine quest
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The Cid
Definition
poem about a Spanish war hero of the same name; written in the vernacular
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