Transcript The Medieval Church

THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH
Chapter 7, Section 3
By: Nina Farah. And Tanima Alam.
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN
PEOPLE’S LIVES
Priest of the Parish was the only contact people
had to the church
 Sacrament: The saved rites of the church
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This is what the priest celebrated
Christians believed that if they participated in
the sacrament it would lead them to “salutation”
or ever lasting life with God
 A lot of events took place at church
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Community service
 Marriages
 funerals
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Each village has a different church designs that
describes their style
 For church, Christians had to pay a tithe or a tax
equal to a 10th of their income
 Bishops made large Churches known as
Cathedrals
 Cathedrals were a source of pride to the
community
 People all over Europe started to compete on
building tall cathedrals
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MONASTERIES AND CONVENTS
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Early Middle Ages, some men and women
withdrew life, to the monastic life
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And later became Monks and Nuns
A monk named Benedict, organized the
monastery of Monte Cession in Central Italy
He created the Benedictine Rule: was used by the
monasteries and convents across Europe
LIFE IN A MONASTERY
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Monasteries weren't just places where monks
lived and prayed, they were also places to where
they worked and studied
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Under this rule the nuns and monks held three
vows:
1st obedience to the abbot or abbess who headed the
monastery or convent
 2nd Poverty
 3rd Chastity/Purity
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Developed better agricultural methods
 They helped improve the economy of the middle
Ages, based on farming
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THE POWER OF THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Papal supremacy: authority over all Secular
rules, including kings and emperors
 Secular: force in medieval Europe
 The pope held vast lands in central Italy, known
as the Papal States
 Church officials were normally related to the
secular rulers
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CORRUPTION AND REFORM IN THE CHURCH
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In the early 900’s, Abbot Berno sent out a reform
to his Monastery of Cluny, in Eastern France
he revived the Benedictine Rule of obedience,
poverty and chastity
 Also refused to allow nobles/bishops to interfere in
monastery affairs
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As the years went on, monasteries and convents
copied those reforms
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Gregory VII, was a monk, which later became a
pope; wanted to limit the secular influence on the
churches
he insisted that the churches should only choose
bishops; eventually that policy didn’t go so well, which
involved the German Emperor
 he also outlawed the marriage of priests and
prohibited simony (the selling of the church offices)
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Friars: monks who didn’t live in the isolated
monasteries and decided to do a different way to
reform
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by traveling around Europe’s growing towns and
preaching to the poor
JEWS IN MEDIEVEL EUROPE
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Spain became a center of Jewish culture and
education
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Jews also served as officials in Muslim royal courts;
which the German kings gave them a role in the
court
Northern Europe, valued and protected the
Jewish communities, and taxed them heavily
 By the late 1000’s. Western Europe became more
Christianized and more prejudice against Jews
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when disasters occurred ( illness/famine) they would
blame it on the Jews
Power grew in church & forbidden Jews to own
land, but yet Popes still went to the educated
Jews as financial advisers & physicians
~Thank you~
The End