FINAL EXAM: BRING BLUE BOOKS HIST112 O'Neil
FORMAT:
Pt. I Multiple Choice: 10 easy factual questions
Pt. II Identifications: Write paragraph giving identifying
information (who,
what, where, when) and explaining the significance (why, so what?);
include dates where possible. Identifications will be of figures &
events
discussed both in lectures and in readings. (Choice 6 out of 10)
Pt. III Essays: do two essays, one from each category
(choice within each):
** USE LECTURE OUTLINES AS SUMMARY OF CENTRAL ISSUES, PROBLEMS,
TOPICS **
POLITICAL
HISTORY: suggested structure for review of course material
1) FEUDAL KINGSHIP: relationship between Kings and
Vassals
Feudalism: delegation of governmental powers to local Lords
Feudal Kingship: -- variations in medieval Kings' assertion of control
over vassals: England, France, Empire (Golden Bull of 1356/electors)
-- tension between elective and hereditary principles of succession
Institutional development of royal governments:
Engl: common law, Norman invasion, introduction of feudalism
Magna Carta, evolution of Parliament, "constitutionalism"
France: efforts at royal centralization: role of sacral monarchy
obstacles: territorial vassals, Angevins, Estates General
Role of warfare in growth of royal government: 100 Years War;
Italian Wars 1494-1527; Hapsburg-Valois wars;
16th C. wars of religion in Germany
2)CHURCH & STATE: relationship between Papacy and governments
to Reformation
Papacy vs Empire: Investiture Controversy, Gregorian Reform
Crusades as project of reformed Papacy; Hohenstaufens (Fred I
& II)
Italian city states: internal factions seek external alliances:
Guelf (allied with Pope) & Ghibelline (with Emperor)
Western Monarchies: Crusades (1st/3rd); England: Henry II &
Becket;
France: Phillip IV Boniface VIII, Avignon Papacy, Gallican liberties
Decline of Papacy: Great Schism, Conciliarism, Reformation
Charles V as "universal monarch": problems with Papacy,
Reformation
Reformation changes in church/state relationship: Germany, England
INTELLECTUAL,
RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
1) Medieval: Scholasticism, universities:
Peter Abelard, Thomas Aquinas: synthesis of faith & reason (Aristotle)
12-13th C. heretical religious movements: : Catharism,
Waldensianism
Church response: Inquisition; mendicant orders: Franciscans, Dominicans
Albigensian Crusade: role of French King
Courtly love: social, political context: vassalage,
knighthood, Angevins:
literary context: epic (chanson de geste): Song of Roland
troubadour poetry, romance literature, Art of Courtly Love
Italian city states: Florence - Guelfs vs Ghibellines
Dante: Divine Comedy and medieval world view
2)
Renaissance: Humanism as revival of Greek and Latin classics;
Major figures: Petrarch, Medici as patrons (Ficino and Pico),
Machiavelli- historian/humanist: goal understanding
"rules" of politics
Christian humanism: literary and education program
(Erasmus); also
moralizing program for social reform (Thomas More)
Link to Reformation: languages, reform; differ on human nature, free
will
3)
Reformation: origins: late medieval religion, humanism, printing
press
theology: Scripture, justification by faith, grace (predestination)
major figures: Martin Luther, Zwingli, John Calvin, Anabaptists
organization: Church/state relations in Germany, Engl, France, Geneva
Possible
ID’s:
Heresy: Waldensians, Cathars First Crusade, Third
Crusade
Inquisition Eleanor
of Aquitaine
Dominicans, Franciscans Henry II of England,
Beckett
Albigensian Crusade Angevin Empire
Scholasticism
trivium, quadrivium Dante Alighieri:
Florence, White Guelf,
Peter Abelard, Sic et Non exile,
Divine Comedy, De Monarchia
Thomas Aquinas, Petrarch: humanist,
Laura
Summa Theologica
poet laureate
Empire
& Papacy Humanism: studia humanitatis
Guelfs vs Ghibellines Erasmus, Christian humanism
Frederick II Hohenstaufen Brethren of Common
Life
Pope Innocent III Thomas à Kempis, Imitation
of Christ
Golden Bull of 1356 Thomas More: Utopia, Henry
VIII
100
Years War Italian communes (from lectures)
Henry V Florence: Guelf Ghibellines
Joan of Arc guild regime, republican city
government
Charles VII Rome: Cola di Rienzo
Battles: Crecy, Agincourt
Florence:
Late medieval Papacy: Cosimo de Medici
Philip the Fair IV (France) Lorenzo the Magnificent
Boniface VIII Peace of Lodi
Unam Sanctam Florentine Republic of 1494
Conciliarism Savonarola
Avignon Papacy
Councils of Pisa, Constance Machiavelli & The Prince
Great Schism Alexander VI
Pius II Execrabilis Cesare Borgia
John Hus Francesco Sforza
Hussite Church Julius II “warrior
Pope”
Hapsburgs
of Austria, Empire France: Gallican liberties
Maximillian I Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
Charles V
Hapsburg-Valois Wars
Battle of Mohacs
Ottoman Turks German Reformation:
Francis I Luther: 95 Theses, indulgences
Medici Popes: Address to Christian Princes
Leo X, St. Peter's Freedom of a Christian
Clement VII, Sack of Rome 1527
( NOT Clement VIII) Diet of Worms
Exsurge
Domine, Leo X
German Peasant War 1525
Counter Reformation
Council of Trent
Ignatius Loyola Peace of Augsburg 1555
Roman Inquisition cuius regio,
eius religio
Calvinism:
Calvin’s Geneva Swiss reformation:
Institutes of the Christian Religion Zwingli
presbyterianism Sacramentarian Controversy
consistory
Marburg Colloquy 1529
Huguenots = French Calvinists Anabaptists: Schlietheim Confession
England: Enclosure movement
Henry VIII “Defender of Faith”
Act of Supremacy 1534
Reformation Parliament
Thomas More