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Title: The Christian Church in the Middle Ages


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The Christian Church in the Middle Ages
  • 313 Constantine ordered that Christians were
    to be accepted and no longer persecuted.

2
  • Crucifixion of St. Peter, by Caravaggio

3
  • Saint Sebastian, an iconic image of martyrdom

4
  • St Ignatius of Antioch

5
  • A Christian Dirce, by Henryk Siemiradzki

6
  • Forms of execution used by the Romans included
    systematic murder, crucifixion, and the feeding
    of Christians to lions and other wild
    beasts.citation needed Tacitus' Annals XV.44
    record "...a vast multitude, were convicted, not
    so much of the crime of incendiarism as of hatred
    of the human race. And in their deaths they were
    made the subjects of sport for they were wrapped
    in the hides of wild beasts and torn to pieces by
    dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set on fire, and
    when day declined, were burned to serve for
    nocturnal lights."

7
  • By 500 Christianity was the main religion in
    the Mediterranean world. Most Roman citizens
    were Christians by this time.

8
  • Missionaries spread Christianity to the Germanic
    tribes who were pagans.
  • Examples
  • Saint-Patrick ----- Ireland
  • Saint-Augustan ----- England
  • Saint-Boniface ----- Germany
  • By 1000, most of
  • Europe had been
  • Christianized.

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The Christian Church was a unifying institution
after the fall of the Roman Empire
  • Catholic Universal
  • Unifying all people

10
Roles of the Church
  • Taking care of the sick and needy.

11
  • Settling disputes by applying the Church law.
  • - Heresy having a belief contrary to Church
    doctrine.
  • - Blasphemy Showing disrespect for God.
  • - Usury Charging excessive rates of interest.

12
Excommunication
  • When a person is denied the blessing of the
    Church.

13
  • The Church grew in power and became very rich.
  • Some of the clergy was engaged in worldly
    affairs
  • Wealth and Pleasure.

14
Hermits
  • Clergy who wanted to live free from the
    temptation
  • of sin.
  • Live in solitude
  • Strict discipline
  • Pray and meditate
  • Rough clothing
  • Fasting

15
  • Saint-Simeon
  • 30 years at the top of
  • a pillar some 18 metres
  • high!!!
  • Hermits attracted followers
  • Monastic orders and
  • monasteries.
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