1. Chapter 7.3 The Medieval Church
FQ: How did the Medieval Church play an important role in medieval life?
Pilgrimages, the sacraments, help the sick, schools, libraries, agric. improvement, politics, limits on war……..
Roman Church emerged as the most powerful force in the region
Had much economic and political power

2. Medieval Church
England

3. Wells Cathedral, England, built from 1175-1490

4. Who’s more corrupt? The rich or poor?
What we’ll learn
Why?
The Christian Church was the most influential, powerful force in Medieval Times
Kings and countries were not able to control large areas b/c of invasions of Vikings, Magyars, Muslims
Who’s more corrupt? The rich or poor?
Who are the most moral people in society?

5. Focus Q
Who is the most influential, powerful country on Earth? Have any evidence?
During the Middle Ages the Christian Church had the most influence in Europe.

6. Reading Passage Summary
Turn to page 230.
How (why) were Jews both persecuted and valued in Medieval Europe?

7. tried to curb feudal warfare  only 40 days a year for combat.
The Power of the Medieval Church
bishops and abbots played a large part in the feudal system.
the church controlled about 1/3 of the land in Western Europe.
tithe  1/10 tax on your assets given to the church.
tried to curb feudal warfare  only 40 days a year for combat.
curb heresies  crusades; Inquisition
Peter’s Pence  1 penny per person [paid by the peasants].

8. Church Dominates Medieval Life
Most important achievement
Converting people to Christianity in Western Europe
If you didn’t belong to the church, you were viewed with suspicion
Guess what religion was especially suspect?

9. Role of the Parish Priest
In villages, the only contact people had with church was the priest
Gives mass and sacraments
(7) baptism, confirmation, marriage, communion, reconciliation (confession), holy orders (ordination), anointing of the sick
**Participating in sacraments would lead to salvation—everlasting life w/ God**

10. Can you ID them?

11. Role of the Parish Priest
Only contact people had w/ the Church
Administered the sacraments—your way to salvation
Assisted on moral issues, sick and poor people
Some ran schools
Preached in Latin—any questions?

12. Importance of Village Church
**Social center and religious center**
Main events of your life took place at church: baptism, marriage, burial
Much pride in the village church
Some build large, stone churches, collect relics which people come to pray over
Tithe required—10 % of income, supports local church

13. Rise of Cathedrals Big churches = cathedrals
Bishops supervised parish priests and managed larger churches, Cathedrals
Gothic style
Cities competed to have the grandest, tallest Cathedral

15. Cathedrale Notre Dame
Paris

16. Exeter Cathedral
Devon, England

18. Amiens Cathedral, France

19. Reims Cathedral, France

20. Church Attitudes Towards Women
Church doctrine taught equality b/f God
**On Earth, women viewed as:
Weaker, more likely to sin, needed guidance from men**
3. Church tried to protect women—
min. age for marriage
But punished them more severely for same sins

21. Monasteries and Convents
Monks and nuns devote their lives to spiritual goals
Live in Monasteries and Convents

22. Tiger’s Nest Monastery,
Bhutan

23. thessaly
Thessaly, Greece

24. Desert in Israel

25. Meteora, Thessaly, Greece:
St. Trinity Monastery

26. Monastery Immaculate Conception
Indiana

27. A Medieval Monk’s Day

28. Monastic Life: Benedictine Rule
**3 vows: obedience, poverty, chastity (purity)**
They studied, worked in fields and at other physical tasks, experiment w/ agriculture
Develop better agricultural methods

29. Obedience
Poverty
Chastity

30. Service and Scholarship
1. Monastaries/convents provide
Basic health and education services
Food, lodging to travelers
2. Some monks/nuns become missionaries
3. Kept learning alive—”Dark” Ages?
Libraries had Greek and Roman works
Wrote/taught in Latin—lang. of the church

31. Opportunities for Women
Couldn’t become priests
Could be nuns in convents
**Later Middle Ages, the Church withdrew rights that nuns had enjoyed—teaching the Gospels**

32. Church Power Grows
1. It controlled the spiritual life of Christians **Became the most powerful secular (worldly) force in Medieval Europe**

33. Church’s Role in Society
The pope was the leader of the Western Christian Church
***Pope: religious leader who also exercised secular power***
Eventually claim *PAPAL SUPREMACY*
***Authority over all secular rulers, Kings, emperors***
Pope, Archbishops, bishops had their own lands and armies, like feudal lords

34. Vatican City: Pope’s crib

35. Church’s Role in Society
Popes lands, called Papal States, in central Italy
Monasteries had large tracts of land
Church official were close to and sometimes related to secular rulers

36. Religious Authority and Political Power
1. Christians believed people were sinners and had to do stuff to avoid hell
Do good works
believe in Christ
participate in the sacraments
2. B/c church gave the sacraments and could refuse them, it had much power

37. Religious Authority and Political Power
Canon Law: church law, had courts too
1. Most severe penalty: excommunication
Couldn’t receive sacraments or Christian burial
Powerful nobles who opposed the church could face the interdict
Order excluding his town, region from receiving most sacraments or Christian burial

38. Corruption and Reform
As wealth and power grew, discipline weakened—surprised?
Some monks and nuns forgot vows of poverty
Some clergy live in luxury
Priests could marry: surprised? Any thoughts?

39. Two Movements for Reform
1. Cluny monks
Revived obedience, poverty, chastity
Refused to allow nobles or bishops to interfere in monastery affairs
Many monasteries and convents copied this

40. Cluny Monastery

41. Two Movements for Reform
Pope Gregory VII
Church chooses church officials
Outlawed marriage for priests
Prohibited simony (selling church offices)

42. Jews in Medieval Europe
In Middle Ages, Jewish communities all across Europe
Spain had large Jewish population
Christians and Jews lived side by side in relative peace
Many rulers in Northern Europe valued and protected Jewish communities, but taxed them heavily

43. Jews in Medieval Europe
**By the late 1000s, Western Europe had become more Christianized and prejudice against Jews increased**
Disasters like illness and famine blamed on Jews
Church forbid Jews to own land or work in certain professions

44. Jews in Medieval Europe
**Popes and rulers still got advice from Jewish doctors and bankers**
In response, many Jews migrated to Eastern Europe

46. Ch. 7 left side activity
Draw 3 pictures w/ captions for the following topics:
Vassals, lords, knights or serfs.
Treatment of Jews in Medieval times.
Anything to do w/ the power, influence of the Christian Church in Medieval times.
Think: papal supremacy, women, sacraments, Benedictine Rule, etc.