Deck 11: The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century

Question 1

What term best describes Aristotle's philosophical method?

A) Ascetic
B) Emotive
C) Hedonist
D) Empiricist

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The philosophical group known as the __________ argued that universals are merely categorizing tools.

Answer 2

Nominalists

Question 3

What does Anselm's Ontological Proof argue?

A) Against the use of reason in matters of faith
B) For the existence of God
C) Against reading pagan philosophers
D) For training in universities

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What position did Abelard take regarding Church teaching?

A) It was clarified and improved by rigorous scholarly analysis
B) It was sacrosanct and outside the reach of logic
C) It was only the pope's job to proclaim on Church teachings
D) It was too exclusive regarding the role of religious women

Question 5

Disagreeing on theological premises, ______________ was Abelard's chief nemesis.

Question 6

What book was the standard textbook for medieval students of theology?

A) Anselm's Proslogion
B) Abelard's Sic et Non
C) Lombard's Sentences
D) Aristotle's Metaphysics

Question 7

What major reason prevented Islam from absorbing Aristotelian logic?

A) The disagreement between Arab and Persian cultures
B) The status of the Qur'an as perfect and complete
C) The wide geographic spread of the Islamic empire
D) Muslim skepticism surrounding all Greek knowledge

Question 8

What prompted major changes in Western medieval law? (Select all that apply.)

A) The rediscovery of Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis
B) Feudalism's emphasis on territorial rulership
C) The fragmentation of the Carolingian empire
D) Irnerius' concept that the law is a constantly evolving system

Question 9

The Decretum, a compilation by _________, aimed to harmonize disparate legal traditions.

Question 10

Which dynasty first successfully incorporated Hellenic culture into their own?

A) Ottonian
B) Carolingian
C) Umayyad
D) Abbasid

Question 11

What is a madrasa?

A) A body of legal texts
B) A school of religious law
C) A group of military leaders
D) An interpretation of the Qur'an

Question 12

What group was most renowned for their medical skill in the Middle Ages?

A) Persian doctors
B) Female doctors
C) Jewish doctors
D) Frankish doctors

Question 13

The first female medical practitioner whose work survives in the medieval west is known as _____________.

Question 14

What contributed to the rise in knowledge of astronomy?

A) The invention of the astrolabe
B) The papal ban on astrology
C) The new discovery of planets
D) The realization that the earth is round

Question 15

Who was at the forefront of the development of universities?

A) The bourgeoisie
B) Rabbis
C) Bishops
D) Emperors

Question 16

Which of the following were hallmarks of medieval universities? (Select all that apply.)

A) The granting of formal degrees
B) A standardized curriculum
C) The inclusion of women scholars
D) Teaching by an approved set of trained masters

Question 17

The universitas system was modeled on which preexisting system?

A) Guild
B) Feudal
C) Ascetic
D) Patriarchal

Question 18

What was one major stumbling block to many students' education?

A) The provincialism of universities
B) Their clerical status
C) The cost of books
D) Their own boredom

Question 19

Which area boasted the densest foundations of universities before 1300?

A) Italy
B) Spain
C) France
D) Germany

Question 20

Which of the following are qualities associated with courtly love? (Select all that apply.)

A) Social inversion that elevates the lady
B) Writings in the Latin language
C) Love's capacity to be ennobling
D) Fabliau-style poetry