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MEDIEVAL CHURCH. Center of manorial life was the village church Village life was also very communal. MONASTERIES AND CONVENTS. Monks/Nuns Looked after the poor and sick Kept learning alive Friars Served as missionaries.
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Center of manorial life was the village church Village life was also very communal
MONASTERIES AND CONVENTS Monks/Nuns Looked after the poor and sick Kept learning alive • Friars Served as missionaries
(also called the Benedictine Reform) were a series of changes within the Western Church focused on • restoring the traditional monastic life • encouraging religious art • and caring for the sick and poor. • Monasteries needed land. This land was given by a Feudal lord. The lord would become the patron of the monastery. However, he would often demand the right to interfere in the business of the monastery. • The Cluny reform was an attempt to change this practice. • An independent abbot would have better success • at enforcing the Rule of the order. Cluniac Reforms
The movement began at Cluny, founded in 910 by William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875-918).The reforms were largely carried out by Saint Odo(c. 878 – 942) and spread throughout France, into England, and through much of Italy and Spain. • During its height (c. 950–c.1130), the Cluniac movement was one of the largest religious forces in Europe. At least as significantly as their political consequences, the reforms demanded • greater religious devotion. • supported the Peace of God, • promoted pilgrimages to the Holy Lands, which would have a huge impact on groups heading to the Crusades and violence against the Jews in Europe. • An increasingly rich liturgy stimulated demand for altar vessels of gold, fine tapestries and fabrics, stained glass, and polyphonic choral music to fill the Romanesque churches. Cluniac Reforms
The Parish Priest • Administered the Sacraments • Lead to Salvation Baptism – Reconciliation – Penance (conversion, confession and celebration) Eucharist – communion…receiving Christ's Body and Blood Confirmation – mature Christian commitment Marriage – Holy Orders – Ordination Anointing of the Sick – formerly known as Last
Village Church Paid with the Tithe – 10% income tax paid to church
POWER AND CORRUPTIONOF CHURCH Papal Supremacy Went as far back as Saint Innocent I, who served in the papacy from 401 to 417, championed papal supremacy in the entire Church. Had a second great movement in 1075. • Authority over all Secular rulers in “Christendom” • Pope (Vatican) had own army • Bishops were Nobles
POWER AND CORRUPTIONOF CHURCH Papal Supremacy • Authority over all Secular rulers • Pope (Vatican) had own army • Bishops were Nobles Developed Canon Law Catholic canon law as legal system is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulated legal code
POWER AND CORRUPTIONOF CHURCH Excommunication • No sacraments or Christian burial Interdict • Excommunication of entire town or kingdom Gothic Architecture Graceful spires and tall windows
Byzantine Empire Christian church became known as Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Hagia SophiaConstantinople Hagia SophiaIstanbul
Patriarch Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church Pope Roman Catholic Church
The Great Schismseparation between the Roman Catholic Churchthe Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the Pope’s claim as head of Church
Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the Pope’s claim as head of Church 1054 Pope & Patriarch Excommunicated each other The Great Schismseparation between the Roman Catholic Churchthe Eastern Orthodox Church
Jews in Medieval Europe Early Middle Ages • Flourished in Muslim Spain • German kings hired educated Jews
Jews in Medieval Europe 1000’s Not allowed to own land Migrated to Eastern Europe or Muslim lands Prince Bolesław the Pious (1221-1279), the dominant prince in a fractured Poland, issued the Statute of Kalisz in 1264 in which he designated the Jews as a special and protected population in Poland
Jews in Medieval Europe 1000’s Christians blamed Jews for Disasters Christians did not understand culture