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1
Which Islamic scholar's commentaries on Aristotle had a profound influence on Christian scholarship of the Late Middle Ages?
2
What were the associations in towns for various types of work called?
3
Name the famous document that limited royal authority and gave more rights to other men in England.
4
Name the Germanic people who plundered coastal areas in Europe in the early Middle Ages. They were the first Europeans to set foot in North America.
5
Name the seven sacraments.
6
Name the twelfth-century Church reformer, saint, and mystic who contributed greatly to the spread of the Cistercian order.
7
Name the gifted woman who founded a convent, wrote Scivias, and had mystical visions.
8
Who described a mystical vision as a "burning light coming from heaven poured into my mind"?
9
Name the great mystic and devotional writer who wrote The Flowing Light of the Godhead.
10
Name the author of the masterpiece Summa Theologica.
11
Name the masterpiece of chansons de geste.
12
What is a chanson de geste?
13
Who was the first poet to write of King Arthur and his court?
14
Composers of canzones were known by which term, which was derived from the Provençal word for "finder" or "inventor"?
15
Name the author of the oldest surviving lays about courtly love.
16
What is a lay?
17
Who was the greatest European writer during the High Middle Ages?
18
Name his masterpiece.
19
Why were there three doorways in the western façade of Romanesque churches?
20
What Italian monk modernized musical notation with his invention of the musical staff, the set of five horizontal lines and four intermediate spaces on which notes may be drawn?







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