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What term is used to describe the zones in which Byzantine soldiers were given grants of land in lieu of pay? |
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Which emperor issued a simplified law code in the 720s, composed in the Greek language? |
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What was the name of the law code? |
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What term is used to describe monasticism that emphasized austerity and solitude? |
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Which Frank led an army to victory over Muslim forces at Poitiers in 733? |
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The practice of royal anointing first appeared in western Europe with the crowning of which king by the pope in 754? |
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Charlemagne's court announced its decisions on important issues through edicts known by what name? |
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Where was Charlemagne's capital located? |
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What king of Wessex helped to rid southern England of Viking invaders, and aided scholarship in his home country by personally translating Latin works into Old English? |
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Which Aristotelian Byzantine author wrote the influential works Fountain of Knowledge and Three Orations against Those Who Attack Holy Images? |
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Which daughter of a Byzantine emperor wrote one of the first known works of history by a woman? |
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What was the title of her account of her father's reign? |
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Who were the architects of the Hagia Sophia? |
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What is the term for people who break religious images because they think they are blasphemous? |
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Whose influential Rule, written for the monastic community he had founded at Monte Cassino, was greatly admired by Gregory I and Charlemagne, and was adopted by other monasteries? |
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Name the architectural supports in the shape of inverted concave triangles that were used in the Hagia Sophia. |
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Name the handwriting style characterized by clearly formed letters linked into words. It used capital letters at the beginning of sentences and is the predecessor of all subsequent Western handwriting styles. |
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Name the highly educated scholar who translated Aristotle from Greek into Latin and also wrote the Consolation of Philosophy, in which Philosophy was personified as a learned woman with whom he argued many issues in search of the meaning of happiness. |
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Name the female monastic scholar who was the first German playwright. |
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Name the Old English epic poem about men fighting monsters as well as other men, which contains no overt reference to Christianity, but in which some have found implicit Christian themes. |
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