TOPICS TO REVIEW FOR TEST THREE

HUMANITIES 251

J. SWEDENE

Please use these review materials as a guide. Do not consider them exhaustive of all the material likely to show up on the test.

Christian, Byzantine, Islam:

Genesis creation story

Job and evil

Jesus as the Good Shepherd

King David’s Psalm 23

Sermon on the Mount

Jesus’ morality, politics

Some general differences b/t Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Arius

Council of Nicaea

Constantine

Edict of Milan (when?; what was it?)

-the politics of Constantine’s conversion (from video)

Ravenna

Constantinople

Church of Sant’ Apollinare Nuovo

-The mosaics in,

San Vitale

-the mosaics in,

Theodoric

Justinian

Gregory the Great

Boethius

Rectangular Churches vs. Central-type Churches

Sarcophagi

Islamic Style

-Islam’s five pillars

Muhammad

The unifying ideas in Islam and the origins of Islam

Taj Mahal: a tribute to womanhood without images

Dome of the Rock

IDEAS: Authoritarianism, Mysticism, Symbolism

Some questions:

  1. Describe the "marriage" between Church and State that occurs from the fourth century to the sixth. Hint: focus on Constantine, Theodoric, and Justinian.
  2. Describe how that marriage affects architecture, mosaic, and music in the Church. Be sure to note how the Arian heresy thought to be settled at the Council of Nicaea affects the arts and politics of the day.
  3. List the five pillars of Islam and the unofficial sixth pillar, noting how the unofficial sixth pillar admits of two major interpretations.
  4. Discuss the idea of theocracy. Is it possible to make it "on earth as it is in heaven"?

Romanesque Style

Charlemagne

Epoch divisions of middle ages

Social and economic structure of feudalism

Hierarchy

Book of Kells

Capella Palatina

Primogeniture

Monastic life

St. Benedict

Abbot, defn of

Abbey of Cluny

Hugh of Semur

Third Abbey Church at Cluny

Importance of pilgrimage

Sculpture at Vezelay

Gislebertus’s Last Judgment at Auton

Monastic Painting: style, where was it found?

Women in society during middle ages

Hildegard

Progress in musical notation: Odo, Guido

Bayeux Tapestry

Song of Roland

Tower of London

-St. John’s Chapel

Some questions:

  1. Describe the progress made in music theory during the Romanesque period. Who were the major figures in that progression?
  2. What were the subject matter and major characters of the Bayeux Tapestry and the Song of Roland?
  3. What architectural features are distinct of the Romanesque style of churches?
  4. Describe the role of pilgrimage in Romanesque European Church construction. And, describe the role of relics for the Romanesque pilgrimage.