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Statistics for History writers of the Middle Ages
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- This quiz has been taken 3 times
- The average score is 6 of 18
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| King of Castile who commissioned the first general history of Spain (13th c.) | Alfonso X the Wise | 100%
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| Syrian noble who befriended crusaders and wrote vivid memoirs (12th c.) | Usama ibn Munqidh | 100%
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| "Respected" first historian of the Anglo-saxons (7th c.) | The Venerable Bede | 67%
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| Although it was mostly hogwash, his history of the Breton kingdom kickstarted the Arthurian legend (12th c.) | Geoffrey of Monmouth | 33%
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| Knight from Champagne who wrote an eyewitness account of the siege of Constantinople (13th c.) | Geoffrey of Villehardouin | 33%
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| Bishop who wrote a 12-books history of the Franks (6th c.) | Gregory of Tours | 33%
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| Spaniard known for his "Etymologies" and a history of the Visigothic kings (7th c.) | Isidore of Seville | 33%
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| French lord, close friend and biographer of Saint Louis (13th c.) | Jean de Joinville | 33%
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| Hundred Years War's most famous chronicler, a Frenchman on the English side (14th c.) | Jean Froissart | 33%
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| Italian humanist, pioneered the scientific method and revealed that the donation of the Papal states by Constantine was fake (15th c.) | Lorenzo Valla | 33%
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| An english monk with a french city's name who loved drawing (13th c.) | Matthew Paris | 33%
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| Dominican encyclopedist whose "Mirror" was the most famous historical work of his time (13th c.) | Vincent of Beauvais | 33%
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| Historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem who discovered king Baldwin's leprosy (12th c.) | William of Tyre | 33%
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| Daughter of the emperor Alexios, she wrote about the crusades from the Greek point of view (12th c.) | Anna Comnena | 0%
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| Welsh cleric and biographer of Alfred the Great of Wessex (9th c.) | Asser | 0%
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| Tunisian who theorized the growth and fall of empires, also met Timur the Lame AND survived (14th c.) | Ibn Khaldun | 0%
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| Author of "The Brus", the first major work in Scots language (14th c.) | John Barbour | 0%
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| Norman chaplain and biographer of William the Conqueror, witnessed the batte of Hastings (11th c.) | William of Poitiers | 0%
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