Chapters 15 - 23 Flashcards
Hermit
Choosing to live alone outside of society
Asceticism
Doing away with physical comforts for the sake of spiritual discipline.
Germanic peoples
Goths, Vandals, Franks, Belgue, Celts, Saxons - prevailed in Europe. They were uneducated, war-like, loyal to their chief or King.
Hagiographies
Inspiring biographies of saints
Missionaries/Apostles
People “sent” to spread the word
Middle Ages
Period of time, roughly 500 AD to 1500. Barbarians ruled, travel wasn’t safe, no government provided services, agriculture was primitive, infant mortality was high.
Refugees
The only successful farms
Abbot
Leader and father figure of a monarchy
Host
Eucharist/Communion bread
Eucharist
A sacrifice
Votive
A mass said for someone’s personal intentions
“Sacerdotal” society
“Dominated by priests”
Gregorian chant
Music with no rhythm, no harmony, no accompaniment
Religious order
A group of monks, nuns, priests, or sisters who all followed the same rule, and so they all live the same sort of religious life
Scriptoriums
Rooms for copying ancient books
What makes up the trinity and describe each one of them
A) Grammar: reading & writing of Latin (English, Spanish)
B) Rhetoric: art of persuasive expression (Debate, Junior paper)
C) Logic: art of thinking in an orderly way (math, sciences, religion)
Simony
The buying and selling of church offices and religious services
Celibacy
Priests are to live without the pleasures of sex
Cardinals
Special assistants to the pope
Cannons
Church laws
Kanon
Reed
Usury
Loaning money for a fee (interest)
Monk
A person who dedicates his entire life to prayer
What was the first degree from the Lateran council?
A canon against counterfeiters, against people harassing travelers on the move, etc
