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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

1. Explain how the economy, government, and the Church's administration grew during the High Middle Ages.
2. Describe the nobility's ideas of chivalry and courtly love.
3. Compare and contrast how medieval people lived in cities and on manors.
4. Explain how medieval universities addressed the needs of Western-European societies in the High Middle Ages.
5. Describe the ideal social model expounded by the Church. How did the Church promote this model?
6. In what ways did the growth of urban life affect the three social orders?
7. Who were the Albigensians and what did they believe?
8. In what ways does the story of Aucassin and Nicolettereflect the secular culture of the twelfth century?
9. In what ways did the roles of emperor and pope overlap?
10. What factors caused the conflicts between secular and spiritual leaders?
11. What effects did the plague have on medieval society?
12. Itemize three reasons for why the calculation of time was imprecise in the Middle Ages.
13. What ephemeral social values did the great medieval churches reflect?
14. How were these same social values expressed in secular architecture?
15. Why did Flanders gain prominence in the High Middle Ages?
16. What impact did the Crusades have on medieval economy?
17. Professor Weber indicates that the increased economic activities generated "bourgeois values." What were these values?
18. What are examples of two monarchies that expanded the power of their government in the High Middle Ages? What limited the power of medieval monarchs?
19. How did the papacy reform the Catholic Church, and what were the reactions to these efforts?
20. How did the values of townspeople differ from those of the nobility?
21. What was the origin of medieval universities and what topics most concerned medieval scholastics?
22. Compare and contrast noble ideals of love with scholastic discussions.
23. What themes were celebrated in the great works of vernacular literature and architecture?