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The Western Experience, 8/e

Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Flowering of Medieval Civilization

Problems for Analysis

I. Cultural Developments


1		Compare the universities and student life around 1200 with those of today. What was so important about the development of universities at this early date?



2		Compare the ideas of Aquinas and Duns Scotus. How does the analysis of Duns Scotus signify a change from the synthesis of Aquinas?



3		Did religious concerns completely dominate cultural life during the eleventh and twelfth centuries? Support your argument.

II. The States of Europe


4		The Magna Carta is sometimes thought of as a democratic document. In light of the political developments in England during the thirteenth century, do you agree? Why?



5		Compare constitutional consolidation in France with the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire. How do you explain the differences?

III. The Church


6		Does the growth of heresy, and its suppression, indicate that the Church was effectively unified at the beginning of the thirteenth century? Why?



7		Compare the factors that evidenced the growing strength of the Church with those that evidenced future problems for the Church.

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