The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 12 The Medieval Synthesisand Its Cracks 12151340 Copyright
2012 by Bedford/St. Martins Lynn Hunt Thomas R. Martin Barbara H.
Rosenwein Bonnie G. Smith I. The Churchs Mission A. Innocent III
and the Fourth Lateran Council 1. Innocent III and the Creation of
the Council 2. The Laity and the Sacraments 3. Labeling the Jews 4.
The Suppression of Heretics I. The Churchs Mission B. The
Inquisition 1. Purposes of the Inquisition 2. The Inquisition in
Action I. The Churchs Mission C. Lay Piety 1. Preaching Friars and
Receptive Townspeople 2. The Piety of Women I. The Churchs Mission
D. Jews and Lepers as Outcasts 1. Jews Exploited and Expelled 2.
Fearing the Contamination of Lepers II. Reconciling This World and
the Next A. The Achievement of Scholasticism 1. Reconciling Faith
and Reason 2. St. Thomas Aquinas 3. Later Scholastics II.
Reconciling This World and the Next B. New Syntheses in Writing and
Music 1. Vernacular Literature Comes of Age: Dante Alighieri 2.
Polyphony and the Motet II. Reconciling This World and the Next C.
Gothic Art 1. Stained Glass 2. Sculpture 3. Painting III. The
Politics of Control A. The Weakening of the Empire 1. The Papacy
and the German Emperors 2. The Rule of Frederick II 3. The
Consequences of Fredericks Failure III. The Politics of Control B.
Louis IX and a New Ideal of Kingship 1. Louis and the Paternal
Ideal of Kingship 2. The Reign of Louis IX III. The Politics of
Control C. The Birth of Representative Institutions 1. Spanish
Cortes 2. English Parliament III. The Politics of Control D. The
Weakening of the Papacy 1. Taxing the Clergy 2. The Kings New
Tools: Propaganda and Public Opinion 3. Papal Defeat 4. The Avignon
Papacy III. The Politics of Control E. The Rise of the Signori 1.
The Struggle for Power in the Italian Communes 2. The Rise of the
Regional Nobility in Italy III. The Politics of Control F. The
Mongol Takeover 1. The Golden Horde in Russia 2. The Opening of
China to Europeans III. The Politics of Control G. The Great Famine
1. Hunger and Its Effects 2. Reactions to the Famine 3. Social
Causes and Consequences of the Great Famine
