The Church and Society

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The Church and Society

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I. Religion and Society

• Cistercian order monks who farmed (Bernard of
  Clarivaux)
• Many women enter convents between 1000-1200 to
  become nuns.
• Friars are different than monks, they beg for
  food and travel the world preaching.
• Francis of Assisi founded the first order of
  friars
• Daily life revolved around the Catholic Church.

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• Priests conducted religious services, ran schools
  and hospitals, performed weddings and funerals
  and recorded births.
• Saints were holy men and women that had died.
• Catholic Church tried to end heresy.
• Inquisition urged people to confess their
  heresy.

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• Leaders of the Catholic Church persecuted Jews.
• Jews were blamed for the economic problems
• Anti-Semitism caused many Jews to move to Poland
  and other eastern European countries

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II. Medieval Culture

• Architecture of the Middle Ages reflected the
  importance of religion.
• Romanesque Cathedrals
• Gothic Cathedrals

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Duomo in Pisa - Romanesque
Gothic
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• Oxford University was one of the 1st est. in
  Europe.
• Grammar, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and
  astronomy.
• College graduates could continue their education
  and get a Dr. degree in
• Law, medicine, or theology

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• Thomas Aquinas was famous for his scholasticism.
• Combined church teaching with Aristotle.
• Wrote about natural law
• Latin was the language of the educated.
• Vernacular literature began in the middle ages.