| A | B |
| Scholasticism | The method Christians tried to use in resolving the conflict between faith and reaon |
| Thomas Aquinas | In his work "Summa Theologica" he concluded that faith and reason exist in harmony |
| vernacular | everyday languages of normal people such as French, German, and Italian |
| Dante Alighieri | Poet who helped create Divine Comedy |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | English writer who describes the piligrimage by a band of travelers destined for St. Thomas Becket's tomb. |
| Gothic Style | Architeture that imerged in the medieval period that used stone structures with barrelled cielings and stained glass |
| Flying Buttresses | stone supports that stoof outside the church |
| Illumination | artistic decoration of religious books |
| Stained Glass | art with in church that was illumiated by light and depicted religious scenes |
| Tapestries | woven wall hangings |
| initiated | started; introduced |
| Aristotle | philosopher who taught that people should use reason to discover basic truths |
| Chansonss de Geste | songs of heroic deeds, such as the Song of Roland |
| Poem of Cid | Spains great epic that tells the story of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar |
| Divine Comedy | poems that take the read on an imaginary journey into hell and purgatory where souls await forgiveness |
| University | place where subjects were learned in order to educate the growing bureaucracies |
| The City of Ladies | Written by Christine de Pisan and discussed women's education |