Terms and Concepts to Remember from
Sophie's World: The Middle Ages
Sophie's World, pages 165-187


  • St. Mary's Church
  • 313 CE
  • 330 CE
  • 395 CE
  • 476 CE
  • 1453 CE
  • 529 CE
  • Middle Ages
  • Dark Ages
  • Medieval
  • c. 1200 CE
  • Feudalism
  • Bishop of Rome
  • Pope
  • Three cultures from the Roman Empire
  • The Arab contribution to Western thought
  • 632 CE
  • Renaissance
  • The one question at the center of medieval philosophy
  • St. Augustine (354-430 CE)
  • Manichaean
  • The problem of evil
  • Neoplatonism
  • Augustine's use of Plato
  • The 'ideas' (How did Augustine handle Plato's 'forms'?)
  • Augustine's view of the nature of evil
  • Augustine's body/soul dualism
  • Predestination and foreseeing
  • The City of God
  • Education in the Middle Ages
  • St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE)
  • Aquinas' use of Aristotle
  • Natural Theology
  • Aquinas' progression of existence (How is it like Aristotle's progressive scale of life?)
  • Aquinas' view of God's relationship to time
  • Aquinas' view of women
  • Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179 CE)
  • Sophia


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