Transcript Germanic people adopt Christianity

The Medieval Church
Church Authority
• Involved in spiritual
and political matters
• Structure
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Clergy
Pope
Bishops
Local priests
Religion as a Unifying Force
• Stable force during constant
warfare
• Sense of security and community
• Religion was very important
• Church building served as a
religious and social center
Church Justice
• Provided a unified set of
beliefs
• Canon Law
– Marriage
– Religious practices
• Excommunication
– Banish from church
– Freed king’s vassals
• Interdict
– Harshest punishment to king
– No religious services could be
performed on the King’s land
Germanic people adopt
Christianity
• Frankish rulers convert
people
• Missionaries spread ideas
• Monasteries- religious
communities
Church Reform
• Problems in the church
– Married with children
– Lay investiture-kings or nobles could appoint
religious officials
• Concordat of Worms
• Only the church could give a bishop his
power, but the emperor could veto a
proposed bishop
Cathedrals
• Gothic architecture
– Tall
– Light, filled with stained glass
– Used flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, spires
• Almost 500 churches were built between 11701270
• Effect on Town
– $$$$
– pilgrims
• Art
– Sculpture,
– Woodcarvings
– stained glass
Crusades - Causes
• Pope Urban II issued a call for a “Holy War” –
crusade – main goal was to gain control of the
Holy Land and Jerusalem from Muslims
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Quarrelsome knights
Younger sons and positions
Religious zeal
Merchants
First and Second Crusades
• Briefly conquered
Jerusalem
– Defeated by Saladin
• Saladin
– Muslim leader
Third Crusade 1187-1189
“Crusade of the Three Kings”
• Goal
• Leaders:
– Philip Augustus
– Frederick I
– Richard the Lion-hearted
• Richard and Saladin
• Truce
• Results- still hostility between
Muslims and Christians today
Reconquista-Spain
• Effort to drive the
Muslims from Spain
• Led by King
Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella
• 1492 – all Jews and
Muslims were
expelled