Christian Church Takes Shape
What historians sometimes call the Middle Ages in Western Europe
What is the Age of Faith?
The main activities of a monastery
What is providing a safe place for travelers to stay, educating children, writing by hand copies of manuscripts.
A sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church
What is marriage or baptism?
The shorter side sections of a church
What are the transcepts?
Many universities grew out of this
What are cathedral schools?
Community life in Western Europe centered on this
What is the church
Who is Saint Benedict?
A person that travels to a holy place to worship and pray
What is a pilgrim?
Stone arches that spread out the weight of a cathedral’s roof and walls
What is a flying buttress?
A bridge between faith and reason was an idea brought forth by whom?
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
This person decreed that Rome would stop persecuting Christians
Who is Constantine ?
This group lived among ordinary people
What are mendicant friars?
Taking back Jerusalem from the Muslims by force
What were the Crusades?
Decorative stone sculptures projecting from the rain gutters or edges of a Gothic cathedral’s roof.
What are gargoyles?
In medieval Europe, these are the people most likely to be educated
Who are the clergy?
The main reason why the clergy were recorders and advisers to kings
They could read and write
Men who join monasteries
What are monks?
A formal declaration of belief in God and the Church
What is confirmation?
A cathedral displayed this in pictures etched into its stained glass windows.
What are stories from the Bible?
The idea that there is a universal order built into nature, guiding people’s moral thinking
What is natural law?
What the Pope did to strengthen the power of the church
Prohibit kings from appointing priests
Outlaw the selling of church positions
Excommunicating Henry IV
(One answer will work)
A library writing room
What was a scriptorium ?
Wealth, adventure, salvation
What are things that people who went on crusades sought out?
The long, central section of a church
What is a nave?
Dancing, music, plays, acrobats, and bonfires
What are types of entertainment at medieval festivals or holidays?