1. MEDIEVAL CHURCH

2. Center of manorial life was the Village life was also very communal
village church
Village life was also very communal

3. MONASTERIES AND CONVENTS
Monks/Nuns
Looked after the poor and sick
Kept learning alive
Friars
Served as missionaries

4. Cluniac Reforms
(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.

5. Cluniac Reforms
The movement began at Cluny, founded in 910 by William I, Duke of Aquitaine ( ).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.

6. Administered the Sacraments
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

7. Village Church
Paid with the Tithe –
10% income tax paid to church

8. POWER AND CORRUPTION OF 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

9. POWER AND CORRUPTION OF 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

10. POWER AND CORRUPTION OF CHURCH
Excommunication
No sacraments or Christian burial
Interdict
Excommunication of entire
town or kingdom
Gothic Architecture
Graceful spires and tall windows

11. Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Byzantine Empire
Christian church became known as
Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church 11

12. Hagia Sophia Constantinople
Hagia Sophia Istanbul

13. Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Patriarch
Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Pope
Roman Catholic Church 13

14. The Great Schism separation between the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the
Pope’s claim as head of Church 14

15. The Great Schism separation between the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the
Pope’s claim as head of Church
1054 Pope & Patriarch
Excommunicated each other 15

16. Jews in Medieval Europe
Early Middle Ages
Flourished in Muslim Spain
German kings hired educated Jews

17. Jews in Medieval Europe
Not allowed to own land
Migrated to Eastern Europe or Muslim lands
Prince Bolesław the Pious ( ), 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

18. Jews in Medieval Europe
Christians blamed Jews for Disasters
Christians did not understand culture