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Focus Question : In what ways did the Catholic Church not only influence, but dominate life during the Middle Ages? Bell Work: Take Handouts!!! Feudalism.

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1 Focus Question : In what ways did the Catholic Church not only influence, but dominate life during the Middle Ages? Bell Work: Take Handouts!!! Feudalism Quiz!!! ( Booooo, Salem…. Boooooo) Homework: Complete Role of Church Documents and Thesis Statement. Agenda: Feudalism Quiz College talk Role of Church Notes Church Gallery Walk

2 Clergy- Religious Officials
Sacrament- important religious ceremonies Canon Law- church law and practices

3 Excommunication -the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church. Interdict-sentence imposed by the powerful Catholic Church forbidding a person or place, and sometimes even an entire country, from receiving church privileges or participating in church functions.

4 Political The Catholic Church controlled medieval kings…how?
Through excommunication or the interdict A combination of religion and wealth allowed the Church to intervene in politics, and often kings looked to the Church for legitimacy (right to rule).

5 Economic Collected taxes called “tithes.”
Largest landowner in Europe, in an age when land meant power and wealth.

6 Social Controlled learning, and established universities. However universities weren’t established until the 12th century, Church learning in some cases meant a lack of progress. Had its own hierarchy of authority with the Pope in Rome, archbishops, bishops, cardinals, and priests. Most artwork centered on Church themes.


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