Il Basso Medioevo

A medieval scene depicting various elements of the Low Middle Ages, featuring castles, peasants, knights, and a scholarly figure teaching about social estates, with a background of a bustling medieval town.

Il Basso Medioevo Quiz

Test your knowledge of the fascinating period of Il Basso Medioevo (the Low Middle Ages) with this comprehensive quiz. From social structures to important historical events, challenge yourself and learn more about this pivotal time in history.

Key Topics Covered:

The teaching of the 3 estates
Segmentary differentiation
Roles of late medieval kings
Conflicts of jurisdiction

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The teaching of the 3 estates (after Adalbero de Laon, et al)

Properly describes the social realities of the middle ages in general

Properly describes the social realities of the 10th century

Is a normative thought-model

Segmentary differentiation

Describes a social order in which the primary distinction is situated in the vertical dimension (between different estates)

Describes a social order in which the primary distinction is that between functional part-systems (legal system, economic system,...)

Is a concept of Luhmann's systems theory

Describes a social order in which the primary distinction is situated in the horizontal dimension (between different clans, groups, tribes, parties,...)

Is used as a counter-model to classic fiscal-military modernization theory

Pfahlbürger (citizens of the pale)

Are inhabitants of a city without full citizenship

Are non-nobles living in the countryside with citizenship in a nearby city

Are minor nobles living in the countryside with citizenship in a nearby city

Regularly lead to conflict between cities and the nobility

Late medieval kings

Spend most of their time at war

Are almost always in the capital

Spend a lot of time hunting

Govern primarily by issuing deeds, signing documents

A central government of the church

Does not exist in the middle ages

Emerges during the church reforms of the 14th century

Emerges during the church reforms of the 11th century

Consists of the pope and the roman curia

The core goals of the monastery/church reform movement are

Fight against Melany

Fight against Simony

Fight against Nicolaism

Fight against Marcionism

The Guelphs are

The enemies of the Ghibellines

The enemies of the Anjou

The allies of the papacy

The allies of the Staufer

Starting from the 13th century, Italy turns into the central realm of political interaction & conflict because

Of the Sicilian Vespers

Of the rivalry between the Anjou and the Aragonese kings of Sicily

Of the alliance between regional Italian actors and larger European powers

Of Italy's economic and ecclesiastical importance

The term "ecumene", in the middle ages, referred to

The peaceful coexistence of multiple peoples

The Christian world

The known and inhabited world

Broadly the territories that were formerly part of the Roman empire

Conflicts of jurisdicition

Are very common in the middle ages

Arise between clerical and worldly courts

Arise between the courts of various worldy princes

Arise between royal and regional courts

During the late middle ages, war was

More common than during the high middle ages

Less common than local feuds

Usually matter of large-scale battles

Usually a matter of skirmishes and looting

The Parlement de Paris

Was comparable to a parliament in the modern sense

Was the high court of the French kingdom

Was tied to a vast bureaucratic apparatus

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