HIST1001 - Final Exam Study Guide

Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“The queen did no cease to urge him to recognize the true God and cease worshiping idols. But he could not be influenced in any way to this belief, until at last a ware arose with the Alamanni, in which he was driven by the necessity to confess what before he had of his free will denied.”

1. History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours

2. King Clovis’s wife, Queen Clotilda, urged her husband consistently to convert to a Christian. At the time, King Clovis was pagan. During the war against the Alamanni, another Germanic tribe, he prayed to the Christian God as a last resort.

3. The results of the war against the Alamanni ended victorious, which led to King Clovis announcing his conversion to Christianity. This made history since King Clovis became the first official Christian King and began the Christinaization of the Frankish Kingdom.

Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“Upon the death of this man, he ordered the rest to depart, raising great dread of himself by this action. He made many wars and gained many victories. In the tenth year of his reins, he made war on the Thuringi and brought them under his dominion.”

1. History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“Meanwhile they suffered lack of neither bread nor meat; but, because that place was dry, unirrigated, and without rivers, both the men and the beasts of burden were very much in need of water to drink.”

1. Chronicle of the First Crusade by Fulcher of Chartres

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“All of our men having been prepared, and certain ranks both of foot-soldiers and knights have been arranged in order for battle, with the Lord’s Lance we boldly sought where their greater courage and strength lat, and forced them to flee from their most advanced positions.”

1. Chronicle of the First Crusade by Fulcher of Chartres

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“All these things were done by those whom we have designated by name." The rest of the community all the more proclaimed the unity of the sacred Name, and all fell in the hands of the Lord.”

1. The Anonymous of Mainz: A Hebrew Account of the First Crusade

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“There first arose the princes and nobles and common folk in France, who took counsel and set plans to ascend and ‘to rise up like eagles’ and to do battle and ‘to clear a way’ for journeying to Jerusalem, the Holy City, and for reaching the sepulcher of the Crucified, ‘a trampled corpse’ ‘who cannot profit and cannot save for he is worthless.’”

1. The Anonymous of Mainz: A Hebrew Account of the First Crusade

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“And if he should not be able to be present, nevertheless the business shall go on without him, provided that if any one or more of the aforesaid twenty-five barons are in a similar suit they should be removed as far as this particular judgement goes, and others who shall be chosen put upon oath, by the remainder of the twenty-five, shall be substituted for them for this purpose.”

1. The Magna Carta: The “Great Charter” of 1215

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“Earls and barons shall only be fined by their peers, and only in proportion to their offence.”

1. The Magna Carta: The “Great Charter” of 1215

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“An image not only resembles, it expresses: however like each other two eggs may be, one does not express the other and is not its image.”

1. Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“In the state of innocence man preserved his body from external injury by his own wits, helped by God’s providence which so cared for him that nothing dangerous took him by surprise.”

1. Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“Therefor we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”

1. Papal Bull Unam Sanctam by Pope Boniface VIII

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“Therefore there is one body and one head of this one and only church, not two heads as though it were a monster, namely Christ and Christ’s vicar, Peter and Peter’s successor.”

1. Papal Bull Unam Sanctam by Pope Boniface VIII

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“It started in the East, either because of the influence of heavenly bodies or because of God’s just wrath as a punishment to mortals for our wicked deeds, and it killed an infinite number of people.”

1. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“They shut themselves up in those houses where there were no sick people and where one could live well by eating the most delicate of foods and drinking the finest of wines, allowing no one to speak about or listen to anything said about the sick and the dead outside.”

1. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

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“And their heads were crowned in a rich and precious fashion with beautiful crowns. ‘And to tell this,’ she said, ‘I have God’s permission. If you doubt it, send to Poitiers where I was examined before.’”

1. The Trial of Jeanne d’Arc

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“She said the voices told her to answer boldly. She said she had indeed once told her king everything that had been revealed to her, since it concerned him. She said, however, that she had not yet leave to reveal what St. Michael said. She added that she wished her examiner had a copy of the book at Poitiers, provided that God desired it.”

1. The Trial of Jeanne d’Arc

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“He is the pope - papa - because he is the wonderful Prince of Peace, the Father of the future age. For, indeed, such a pontiff became us who, since he was with God bu emptied himself, taking upon him the form of a servant.”

1. The Church by Jan Hus

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Identify the following excerpt. What is it about? What does it reveal about the civilization that produced it?

“No pope is the most exalted person of the catholic church but Christ himself; therefore no pope is the head of the catholic church besides Christ.”

1. The Church by Jan Hus

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