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34 Cards in this Set
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Monasticism |
'monos' meaning alone |
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Asceticism |
self-denial |
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Monastic Complexes |
Became civic centers, places for pilgrims to stop, place of refuge during battles |
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Orant: Adalbero, Bishop of Laon |
Prays |
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pugnant, Bishop of Laon |
fights |
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Laborant, Bishop of Laon |
works |
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Trinity of Order |
Teaching -clergymen defending- knights nurturing - farmers |
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Saint Benedict |
Established a monastic order, Benedictines named after |
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Regula |
Prologue and 73 chapters of rules - guidelines for ideal monastic life. Became standard of Benedictine Rule |
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Guidelines |
Poverty, obedience, stability, and chastity |
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Motto |
prayer and work |
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Opus Dei |
Work of God, Horarium = day, Liturgical common prayer of horarium |
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Chapel/church |
everything in the day centered around this central place of worship |
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Scriptorium |
library and copying area |
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Cloister |
rectangular garden surrounded by covered walkway; used for prayer/meditation |
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Refectory |
dining hall |
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Carolingian miniscule |
development of legible handwriting used today; letters more legible, separates words and capital letters
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zoomorphic
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mythical/fanciful animal shapes/blends
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Rubification |
large decorated letters of the alphabet: enhanced letters, often in red, w/ designs, patterns of all sorts - whorls, spirals, interlocking designs, medallions |
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Iconography |
symbolic meanings for common objects |
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1121 |
Birth of Scholasticism |
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1140 |
Abbot Sugar starts St. Denis |
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1150 -1300 |
First universities at Paris and Bologna. Rise of cities |
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1215 |
Magna Carta |
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1267-1273 |
St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica |
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1303 |
Dante: divine Comedy |
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Gothic Style |
babarbous or rude, because non-classical. |
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St. Denis: 1st fully gothic church |
Abbot Sugar, wanted to combine hagia sophia with concept of loyalty. worked on St. Denis from 1122 until his death. |
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Pilgrimage Church |
Changed floor plan to handle crowds, Three portals, Elongated nave, Choir with double ambulatory, Radiating/aspidal chapels |
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Notre Dame |
Our Lady. Ideal of Harmony - integrations of sculpture with building units
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Rayonnant |
solid walls become mostly glass
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High Gothic Style |
Refined Early Gothic: Taller and greater volume, more windows, stressed wholeness rather than division of space and harmony, amiens cathedral |
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Illuminated manuscripts |
becomes more natural |
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Guido of arezzo |
Organum- 1st step towards polyphony, do re mi fa so la ti do |