Rise of the Roman Catholic Church
What was the center of life in a medieval community?
The church
This sacrament was a formal union between two people that was blessed by the church.
Matrimony/Marriage
This is known as a journey to a holy site.
Pilgrimage
This was a new form of writing that helped make reading easier. We still use this system today.
Lowercase letters
A brotherhood or sisterhood of monks, nuns, or friars.
Religious Order
Historians sometimes call the Middle Ages the age of _________?
Faith
The body of people, such as priests, who perform the sacred functions of a church.
The clergy
Decorative stone sculptures usually carved in the form of a mythical beast.
Gargoyles
Easter is the day Christians celebrate what?
The Resurrection
Women who did not wish to marry joined these communities similar to monasteries and became what?
Nuns
This would ring to call people to worship or warn them of danger.
Church Bells
What is to cause a person to suffer because of his or her beliefs?
Persecute
This building technique spread the massive weight of the roof and walls, which allowed for taller, thinner walls and more windows.
Flying Buttresses
During the Middle Ages, Christmas celebrations lasted for how many days?
12 days
They lived in complete poverty and had to work or beg for food for themselves and the poor.
Franciscan Friars
Many people in medieval Europe thought that storms, disease, and famine were what?
A punishment from God
In the Church hierarchy, who was just below the Cardinals?
Archbishops
These were a series of military expeditions to the Holy Land were Christian and Muslim armies fought one another.
The Crusades
This man was an Italian scholar of philosophy and theology, who bridged the gap between reason and faith.
Thomas Aquinas
In this room the monks copied books by hand and created beautiful illuminated manuscripts.
Scriptorium
What is the saving of one's soul?
Salvation
Pope Gregory did this to King Henry IV, which meant he was thrown out of church and no longer going to heaven.
Excommunicate
This narrative poem was about a group of pilgrims on the way to visit a shrine.
Canterbury Tales
Aquina's concept that there was an order build into nature that could guide people's thinking about right and wrong.
Natural Law
What were the 3 solemn vows, or promises, of the Benedictines Monks?
poverty, chastity, obedience.