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| Curriculum | a course of study |
| Scholastics | a group of medieval philosophers who argued that reason could be used to explain Christian teachings |
| Mortality Play | a type of medieval religious drama, in which characters representing human virtues and vices acted out conflicts between good and evil |
| Thomas Aquinas | a very clever Scholastic who was also a member of the Dominican order of Monks |
| Dante | a great Italian poet of the Middle Ages; author of the Divine Comedy |
| Chaucer | an English poet who wrote The Canterbury Tales |
| Troubadours | poet-musicians who used Vernacular languages |
| Vernacular Language | the local language |
| Romance Language | French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; languages derived from Latin |
| Gothic | a style of architecture developed during the twelfth century, which featured pointed arches, flying buttresses, and large, stained-glass windows |
| Romanesque | a style of architecture developed during the Middle Ages, characterized by rounded arches, thick walls, small windows, and little ornamentation |
| Roger Bacon | a medieval scientist, monk and philosopher |
| Alchemy | an ancient field of study based on searching for ways to turn common metals into gold |
| Astrology | the study of stars and planets and their movements, with the aim of predicting events on the earth |
| Plague/Black Death | a contagious, usually fatal disease, transmitted by fleas from infected rats, the reached epidemic proportions in fourteenth century Europe |
| 100 Years' War | a series of conflicts between England and France over French lands held by the English king |
| War of the Roses | a civil war between two rival branches of the English royal family |
| Great Schism | the period when people began to doubt the church because there were two Popes at the same time |
| Joan of Arc | French military leader and heroine |
| John Wycliffe | a religious reformer who was the first person to translate the Bible into English |
| John Huss | a religious reformer who was the head of the University of Prague and who challenged the Pope's authority and was burned at the stake for heresy |
