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3. | members of Roman Catholic mendicant, teaching religious order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in early 13th century (L232-234) |
4. | Charlemagne’s counselor; introduced cursive script G77 |
5. | He was one of a small group of scholars who invigorated medieval Europe in the twelfth century by transmitting Greek and Arab traditions in astronomy, medicine and other sciences, in the form of translations into Latin, which made them available to every literate person in the West. One of his most famous translations is of Ptolemy's Almagest from Arabic texts found in Toledo. (L216) |
7. | anonymous treatise from Alexandria; originally written in Greek; collections of animal lore arranged in short entries or chapters; contains about 40 entries L354 |
8. | was a French bishop of Paris during the thirteenth century. He is best remembered for promulgating a Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological propositions (or articles) that addressed ideas and concepts that were being discussed and disputed in the faculty of Arts at the University of Paris. (L246-247) |
9. | Persian (ibn Sina) Islamic commentator on Aristotle (Platonic leaning) and medical encyclopedist; wrote more than 100 treatises L187 |
10. | a French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess, best known for her love affair and correspondence with Peter Abélard. |
12. | an Irish theologian (800s CE), Neo-platonist philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius (L198-199) |
14. | Developed as a set of rules for determining the proper date of Easter and other religious feast day L196 |
17. | Term used to describe relationship of natural philosophy to theology; Latin word for ancilla |
18. | Franciscans and Dominicans “the mendicants (means begging or living on alms)” were “regular clergy”, because they lived under a regula or rule L232 |
19. | Islamic philosopher(ibn Rushd); wrote commentaries on Aristotle L217 |
23. | A member of Siger's Circle who argued that philosophers must refute Christian teachings of creation and must instead defend the entirety of of the world L244-245 |
24. | A scholar who attempted to use Plato's theories of cosmology and physics to elucidate Genesis' notion of creation; attempted to attribute the creation of the four elements within the 6 days of creation L210 |
25. | Another term for dividing the terrestrial globe into climatic zones L279 |
26. | Englishman (ca. 1220-1292) argued that the new philosophy (reason) is a divine gift capable of proving articles of faith; philosophy is God-given and there can be no conflict between it and the articles of faith L235-36 |
27. | Scholar who had an affair with Heliose; wrote Sic et Non L208 |
28. | Wrote “De material medica” that contains careful descriptions of more than six hundred plants, along with a variety of animal products, and close to one hundred minerals L162 |
29. | Astronomical instrument used to measure celestial bodies; name of Abelard and Heloise’s child G159 |