1. The Church and Society 15.4

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. II. Medieval Culture Architecture of the Middle Ages reflected the importance of religion.  Romanesque Cathedrals  Gothic Cathedrals

6. Duomo in Pisa - Romanesque Gothic

7. Oxford University was one of the 1 st 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

8. 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.