Study guide:

1.feudalism : vway of life based on ownership and use of land


2.fief: land


3.lord :owners of land


4.vassal : has to be in lords army to use land


5.knight : heavily armed warrior


6.chivalry code of conduct


7.heraldry :colorful and unique emblems


8.castle : fortified dwellings


9.joust :2 knights fought to knock each other off horses


10.tournament: fought a mock battle


11.manor :estates that belonged to nobles


12.serf :farmers that worked on manors.


13.Truce of God :forbade fighting from friday thru sunday


14.Peace of God : priest denied sacriments to persons who robbed churches took a surfs property or killed a non combant during battle


15.burg : community of traveling merchants


16.middle class : burgners


17.trade fair : merchants from all over


18.guild : developed during time


19.black death :bubonic plague


20.Chaucer : wrote canterbury tales



21.trivium:gammer, rhetoric, logic


22.quadrivium : math, music, geometry, and astronomy


23.scholasticism : roman catholic + greek= scholasticism


24.Brethren of the Common Life : christian group founded by gerhard groote


25.humanism : intense interest in the subject of humanity


26.patron :ppl who use who use their own $$$ to support the arts


27.Sistine Chapel :Michealangleo painted it


28.Medicis :supported michealangelo


29.Thomas Aquinas : spoke slowly, called dumb ox, brilliant mind


30.William of Ockham: educated @ oxford


31.John Wycliffe : mornig star of the reformation, thought pope was wrong


32.John Huss : follower of wycliffe, bruned at stake


33.Gerhard Groote : wanted to put buble into action

34.Dante :wrote divine comedy


35.Petrarch: father of humanism


36.Bocaccio :wrote decameron


37.Michelangelo: greatsest artis of renaissance


38.Flanders : primary trade of wool

39.Machiavelli: wrote the prince

40.Giotto : famous artist


41.DaVinci: renaissance man


42.Prague:famous artist