Transcript Medieval Church Part ll

Medieval Church Part ll
Jennifer Farrell & Margo Poleway
Chapter 7 Section 3
Period 6
Global 9H
Focus Questions
• Who were the key people of the Medieval
church?
• How did the church impact society?
• What happened to the church and society
during the corruption and reforms?
Church Power Grows
Centuries after Rome’s fall
-Hierarchy unique position in Western Europe
Church gradually became powerful
Secular: Worldly, force in medieval Europe
The Church’s Role in Society
• Pope= spiritual leader of Western Christian Church
• Papal Supremacy: Authority over all secular rulers, including kings and
emperors.
• Churchmen supervised activities
• High clergy were nobles
• Feudal lords had territories and armies
• Church rulers linked to secular rulers
• Churchmen were highly educated
Religious Authority and Political Power
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Dedicated to worship God
All were sinners
Canon Law: Churches bodies of laws
-Religion teachings, aspects of life,
-Disobeyers were prosecuted
Excommunication: Could not receive sacraments or Christian burial
Interdict: Powerful noble who opposed the Church
-Caused revolts by the common people
A Force for Peace
• Used authority to end noble warfare
• Truce of God: Temporary peace
• Demanded the stop to fighting
Corruption And Reform
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“Dark Ages”
Began the religious revolution
Popes were barely educated
Didn’t know religious services
Churches lost a lot of money
Two Movements for Reform
• Abbot Berno reformed his monastery of Cluny
in Eastern France
– Refused to allow nobles& bishops to interfere in
monastery affairs
• Gregory VII
– Monk
– Became pope
– Pushed for reform
– Outlawed marriage for priests
– Prohibited simony: The selling of church offices
New Preaching Orders
• Friars: Monks who did not
live in isolated monasteries
• Took a different approach to
reform
• Traveled around Europe’s
growing towns
• Preached to the poor
Women in the reform movement
• Supported the reform movement
- Some became Dominican nuns
- Others joined the Poor Clares
- Well-born women gave a gift (Dowry) to the
church.
-Poor women were welcomed by the Beguines
St. Francis of Assisi
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Wealthy Italian
Grew up rich
Founded the first friars
Preached poverty, humility and love of God
St. Dominic
• Spanish priest
• Patron Saint of Astronomers
• Founded the Dominican Friars
– Orders of Preachers
Jews in Medieval Europe
• Existed all across Europe
-Muslim rulers in present day Spain
-Spain became center of Jewish Culture
-Jew served as officials in Muslim Royal
Courts
-Jews were given positions by early German
kings
-Jews were protected and valued by rulers in
Europe
-Jews taxed highly
Jews in Medieval Europe continued..
• Christians blamed Jews for the
illnesses
- Jews& Christians had little
interaction with each other
- Rulers and popes turned to
educated Jews for help
-Thousands of Jews migrated to
Eastern Europe
- Jewish communities settled in
Eastern Europe until modern times
Works Cited
• TEXTBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• "Saint Dominic." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 08 Feb.
2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Dominic>.
• Wikipedia. "St. Francis of Assisi - Saints & Angels." Catholic Online.
Web. 08 Feb. 2012.
<http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50>.
• "The Reformation and Counter Reformation." World History
International: World History Essays From Prehistory To The Present.
History World International. Web. 08 Feb. 2012. <http://historyworld.org/reformation_and_counter_reformat.htm>.