| A | B |
|---|
| Epic | long narrative poem |
| flying buttress | stone supports that stood outside a building |
| illumination | the artistic decoration of books |
| Dante | wrote Divine Comedy an imaginary journey through hell purgatory and a vision of heaven |
| Chaucer | wrote Canterbury Tales a story of pilgrims on a journey to visit the tomb of Thomas Becket |
| Scholasticism | a medieval philosophy that sought to show that faith and reason existed in harmony |
| Vernacular | the everyday language of ordinary people French German English and Italian |
| Thomas Aquinas | a scholastic philosopher who wrote Summa Theologica in which he tried to show how faith and reason existed in harmony |
| Christine de Pizan | Italian born woman who lived in French court her father made sure she was educated after her husband died before she spent the remainder of her years writing |
| Summa Theologica | work written by Thomas Aquinas in which he concluded that faith and reason existed in harmony Both led to the same truth that God ruled an orderly universe. |
| Divine Comedy | an imaginary journey through hell purgatory and a vision of heaven |
| Canterbury Tales | story of pilgrims on a journey to visit the tomb of Thomas Becket |
