Professor James Baer

WESTERN CIVILIZATION I

Study Guide Ch. 9 &10

Identifcation Identify the terms and people listed in one short phrase. After reading these chapters, students should understand  the importance of these individuals and terms, and with which country or countries they are associated. Type your responses.

Terms:

Cluny Reforms:

College of Cardinals:

Investiture Controversy:

Simony:

Excommunication:

Oxford:

Sorbonne:

Scholasticism:

Guilds:

Magna Carta:

Parliament:

Black Death:

The Hundred Years' War

Unam Sanctam:

Great Schism:

Jacquerie:

People:

Pope Gregory VII:

Francis of Assisi

Peter Abelard:

Thomas Aquinas

King John of England:

Joan of Arc:

Boniface VIII:

Essay/ Discussion Topics: Choose ONE of the following and type (double-spaced) a 250 word response, using specific information from the textbook.

1. How did universities and medieval thinkers, such as Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas help transform Europe?

2. How did the Great Schism indicate a decline in the power and prestige of the papacy?

3. Why was the fourteenth century a time of death and destruction in Europe? What fundamental changes occurred because of these events?