HUM CHAP 6

True

The medieval Romanesque style of architecture displayed a return to stone barrel and groin vaults of the kinds first used by the Romans, hence the name "Romanesque."

False

The round arch can rise to any height, while the height of the pointed arch is governed by the space it spans.

Penance

This sacrament acknowledged repentance of sins and offered absolution.

Confirmation

This sacrament admitted the baptized to full church privileges.

Matrimony

This sacrament blessed the union of man and woman.

Extreme unction

This sacrament would be performed just prior to death, and provided final absolution from sins.

True

Thomas Aquinas is considered the greatest of the medieval scholastics, known for his efforts to prove that the truths of reason are compatible with the truths of revelation.

Polyphony

Meaning "many voices," a musical texture consisting of two or more lines of melody that are of equal importance.

True

Medieval scholasticism was aimed at producing a synthesis of Christian and Classical learning, and the scholastics were the humanists of the medieval world.

Dies Irae

A 57-line hymn which originated among the Franciscans, which was added to the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead and quickly became a standard part of the Christian funeral service.

Odo of Cluny

A Benedictine monk who arranged the tones of the commonly used scale in a progression from A through G to designate the seven notes of the Western scale.

Guido of Arezzo

A Benedictine monk who introduced the concept of musical notation with a staff of colored lines and neumes, or notational signs traditionally written above the words to indicate tonal ascent or descent.

Requiem

A Mass for the Dead, or a solemn chant to honor the dead.

Motet

A short, polyphonic religious composition based on a sacred text.

True

Relics - such as the remains of saints and martyrs or pieces of the Crucifixion cross - became objects of holy veneration during the Middle Ages, and they would be housed inside of ornamental containers called reliquaries, often shaped to replicate the person or body part of the saint they enshrined.

Inferno

The image below represents which of the following parts of the underworld written about by Dante in his Divine Comedy?

Ordination

This sacrament invested those entering the clergy with priestly authority.

Eucharist

This sacrament was the central and most important, joining humans to God by means of the body and blood of Jesus.

Baptism

This sacrament would be performed at birth, and purified the recipient of Original Sin.

Morality play

Dealt with the struggle between good and evil, and the destiny of the soul in the hereafter.

Mystery play

Dramatized aspects of biblical history from the fall of Lucifer to the Last Judgment.

The main character of the Divine Comedy is Beatrice, a Florentine woman who is guided through the underworld by Greek poet Homer.

All of the following statements are true of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, except which one?

Hildegard only studied and believed in the teachings of the church - she denounced and did not believe in natural science, medicine, and the treatment of disease.

All of the following statements are true of Hildegard of Bingen, except which one?

Francis was a cloistered monk who stayed isolated within the confines of the monastery and never left to be among the people.

All of the following statements are true of Saint Francis of Assisi, except which one?

Early pilgrimage churches, like the cathedral of Saint-Sernin, were built in the Gothic architectural style.

All of the following statements are true of medieval pilgrimage churches, except which one?

The Gothic style originated in southern Italy, but was not popular in the rest of Europe, and thus the style did not spread very far.

All of the following statements are true of the Gothic cathedral and Gothic style architecture, except which one?

The Church was not very wealthy and did not own much of its own property during the medieval era, due to Christian values such as antimaterialism and charity.

All of the following statements are true of the Medieval Roman Catholic Church, except which one?

Miracle play

Enacted stories from the Life of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or the saints.

True

In Hildegard of Bingen's morality play, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues), the Devil's lines are spoken - not sung - because Hildegard believed that satanic evil was unable to know the harmony and order of music itself.