Medieval Test #1 Review

Who was Mithras?

Which of the following religious groups at Dura Europos practiced baptism in a seperate baptistery space?

Which religion at Dura Europos allowed the participation of only men?

The tauroctony symbolizes...

Which of the three religious spaces that you read about at Dura Europos featured either painted or sculpted imagery?

The excavators were surprised to find ______ in the synagogue at Dura Europos...

Baptism and the Eucharist were rituals practiced by Jews...

The religious buildings at Dura Europos were purposfully built for religious worship...

In the baptistery of the Christian building, a small drawing of Adam and Eve was added to the Good Shepherd painting at some point after its completion...

According to Stalley, which of the following are characteristics of basilicas?

Santa Sabina's windows were filled with clear glass...

Freestanding columns to support arches were a Christian innovation...

When was the basilica form accepted as an appropriate form for church design?

Prior to the legalization of Christianity, Christian worship was primarily practiced in Roman temples...

What were basilicas used for before they began to be used as Christian churches?

Old St. Peter's was built on the site where...

Which of the following was true about Rome in the fifth century?

Ravenna, a city on the Adriatic coast of Italy, was open to eastern influences on its art and architecture before Byzantine troops occupied it in 540...

The basilica form was well suited to small congregations with limited resources.

Anglo-Saxon England had close ties with Rome and the papacy.

The technological skills associated with the Roman basilicas were in decline as populations became more rural in the sixth and seventh centuries.

The primary building material in Anglo-Saxon England was stone.

When Augustine came to Britain in 597, his goal was to...

Which of the following objects did Augustine bring with him to meet king Ethelbert?

An iconoclast is a lover of images.

Early Christianity forbid representation images.

The person buried in Mount 1 at Sutton Hoo was a Christian

The art of the Anglo-Saxons was portable and secular

Pope Gregory believed that images were a substitute for the sacred word, allowing the illiterate to read what they cannot read in books.

The monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow was very devoted to this city...