HST 1100 Chapter 9 Key terms

"A class of hereditary nobility in medieval Europe; a warrior class who shared a distinctive lifestyle based on the institution of knighthood, although there were social divisions within the group based on extremes of wealth"

• aristocracy

• three field system

• bourgeoisie

• chivalry

"beginning in the Middle Ages, an economic system in which people invested in trade and goods to make profits."

• bourgeoisie

• capitalism

• Flanders

• carruca

"the philosophical and theological system of the medieval schools, which emphasized rigorous analysis of contradictory authorities; often used to try to reconcile faith and reason."

• aristocracy

• Flanders

• scholasticism

• capitalism

"subscribers to the medieval European school of thought that held, following Plato, that the individual objects we perceive are not real but merely manifestations of universal ideas existing in the mind of God."

• realists

• trivium

• nominalists

• quadrivium

"associations of people with common interests and concerns, especially people working in the same craft. In medieval Europe, guilds came to control much of the production process and to restrict entry into various trades."

• guilds

• trivium

• quadrivium

• chivalry

"inhabitants (merchants and artisans) of boroughs and burghs (towns)."

• aristocracy

• chivalry

• scholasticism

• bourgeoisie

"members of a school of thought in medieval Europe that, following Aristotle, held that only individual objects are real and that universals are only names created by humans."

• capitalism

• chivalry

• realists

• nominalists

"The ideal of civilized behavior that emerged among the nobility in the eleventh and twelfth centuries under the influence of the church; a code of ethics that knights were expected to uphold."

• aristocracy

• guilds

• chivalry

• scholasticism