CSTU - Exam 2 Answered 100% Correct

The story about a young warrior hero who saves the court of the Danish king by slaying the monster Grendel and displaying its severed arm as a gruesome trophy - ANSWER-Beowulf Frankish ruler - ANSWER-Charlemagne Charlemagne's favorite book - ANSWER-City of God Author of City of God - ANSWER-Augustine A collection of the psalms produced in the workshops of Ebbo - ANSWER-Utrecht Psalter Richly decorated containers of holy objects (relics) - ANSWER-Reliquaries Another word for holy objects - ANSWER-Relics The system of landholding and political alliance that prevailed in medieval Europe - ANSWER-Feudalism Middle Ages - ANSWER-Feudalism Feudalism's greatest war story - ANSWER-Song of Roland An epic that recounts a battle from Charlemagne's campaigns in Islamic Spain - ANSWER-Song of Roland Tales of chivalric deeds sung by minstrels in Europe's feudal courts - ANSWER-Chansons de geste The renunciation of normal life to pursue a life of solitary devotion - ANSWER-Monastic ideal The life of Christ's apostles - ANSWER-Vita apostolica An arched walkway opening onto a courtyard - ANSWER-Cloister A place where manuscripts were copied and preserved - ANSWER-Scriptorium A Saxon noblewoman who wrote witty adaptations of Roman comedies - ANSWER-Hrotsvit An ambitious bishop who built two large Romanesque churches - ANSWER-Bernward