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Exploring the Medieval Era: A Visual Quiz

This quiz engages participants in identifying significant historical images related to the Medieval Era through multiple choice questions.

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1 What does the following picture show?  The coronation of Charlemagne depicted in the 14th-century Grandes Chroniques de France   Richard III, England's last Medieval monarch   St Francis of Assisi, depicted by Bonaventura in 1235, brought about reform in the church   The Allegory of Good Government was painted for the town council in Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

2 What does the following picture show?  St Francis of Assisi, depicted by Bonaventura in 1235, brought about reform in the church   Leonardo Bruni was a Renaissance historian who help develop the concept of the Middle Ages.   Breakup of the Carolingian empire   Joan of Arc in a 15th-century miniature

3 What does the following picture show?  Leonardo Bruni was a Renaissance historian who help develop the concept of the Middle Ages.   The coronation of Charlemagne depicted in the 14th-century Grandes Chroniques de France   Costumes of slaves or serfs. Approximately 10-20% of the rural population of Carolingian Europe consisted of slaves.   The Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries      Expansion under Muhammad, 622–632      Expansion during the Patriarchal Caliphate, 632–661      Expansion during the Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750

4 What does the following picture show?  St Andrew's cathedral, Amalfi, Italy, completed in 1206   Breakup of the Carolingian empire   The coronation of Charlemagne depicted in the 14th-century Grandes Chroniques de France   The fortress of Carcassonne, France

5 What does the following picture show?  Hungarian campaigns in the 10th century. Most European nations were praying for mercy: "Sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine" - "Lord save us from the arrows of Hungarians"   Ninth-century depiction of Charlemagne with popes Gelasius I and Gregory the Great   The coronation of Charlemagne depicted in the 14th-century Grandes Chroniques de France   Ninth-century depiction of Charlemagne with popes Gelasius I and Gregory the Great

6 What does the following picture show?  Lincoln Cathedral. Lincoln in England is an example of a cathedral city.   Costumes of slaves or serfs. Approximately 10-20% of the rural population of Carolingian Europe consisted of slaves.   Hungarian campaigns in the 10th century. Most European nations were praying for mercy: "Sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine" - "Lord save us from the arrows of Hungarians"   The Allegory of Good Government was painted for the town council in Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

7 What does the following picture show?  Ninth-century depiction of Charlemagne with popes Gelasius I and Gregory the Great   Charlemagne's cathedral at Aachen   Richard III, England's last Medieval monarch   Charlemagne's cathedral at Aachen

8 What does the following picture show?  Map of territorial boundaries ca. 450 AD   Joan of Arc in a 15th-century miniature   The coronation of Charlemagne depicted in the 14th-century Grandes Chroniques de France   St Andrew's cathedral, Amalfi, Italy, completed in 1206

9 What does the following picture show?  St Francis of Assisi, depicted by Bonaventura in 1235, brought about reform in the church   The coronation of Charlemagne depicted in the 14th-century Grandes Chroniques de France   The fortress of Carcassonne, France   Joan of Arc in a 15th-century miniature

10 What does the following picture show?  The fortress of Carcassonne, France   Lincoln Cathedral. Lincoln in England is an example of a cathedral city.   Hungarian campaigns in the 10th century. Most European nations were praying for mercy: "Sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine" - "Lord save us from the arrows of Hungarians"   Costumes of slaves or serfs. Approximately 10-20% of the rural population of Carolingian Europe consisted of slaves.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base.
  • the medieval Horne Church (pictured) in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe.
  • the medieval bylaw, which states any Welshman loitering within Chester city walls (pictured) after sunset may be shot with a longbow, has never been officially repealed.
  • the Catalan Atlas (pictured), one of the most important maps of the medieval period, was made by Abraham Cresques, who belonged to the Majorcan cartographic school, in 1375.
  • in the 1936 Siege of the Alcázar, around 1000 Spanish Nationalists in Toledo held a medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican troops.
  • one of the most important advances in medieval Islamic psychology was the establishment of the first psychiatric hospitals.
  • the medieval Old Punch Bowl in Crawley, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a tearoom, an officers' mess, a YMCA and a bank, and is now a pub.
  • the medieval village of Babington in Somerset, England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House.
  • the important medieval fresco cycle in Castelseprio, Italy, (pictured) was rediscovered only in 1944.
  • the subject in art of Christ taking leave of his Mother (pictured) has no biblical basis but derives from medieval devotional writing.
  • the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century.
  • the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house.
  • the New Zealand McGillicuddy Serious Party wanted to return to a medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobite line.
  • in 1907, the medieval Great Hall of Lytes Cary manor house (pictured) was being used as a cider store.
  • before brick became available as a building material, churches in medieval Northern Europe were commonly built with glacial erratics and rubble.
  • Cockaigne was a legendary peasant utopia of medieval Europe.
  • Dunash ben Labrat, a medieval Jewish writer, introduced Arabic language poetic meter into Hebrew poetry.
  • Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village.
  • Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire, and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land.
  • medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees.
  • Ani, a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople, was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin.
  • Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle.
  • Main Market Square (pictured) in Kraków is one of the biggest medieval market squares in Europe.
  • The Georgian Chronicles are a series of medieval texts outlining the history of the Kingdom of Georgia dating from the 9th to the 14th century.
  • podestà was a powerful position in medieval north Italian cities.
  • St Teilo's Church, Llandeloy in Pembrokeshire was built in 1926–27 from medieval ruins.
  • St Laurence Church, Ludlow, England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings, but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman's gravesite.
  • St. Mary's Church, South Stoneham (pictured) is one of the two remaining medieval churches in the city of Southampton, England, with parts of the building dating from the 12th century.
  • archeological excavations proved that the Visoko valley (pictured) was the center of the medieval Bosnian state and later kingdom.
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