Chapters 15 - 23 Flashcards

1
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Hermit

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Choosing to live alone outside of society

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2
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Asceticism

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Doing away with physical comforts for the sake of spiritual discipline.

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3
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Germanic peoples

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Goths, Vandals, Franks, Belgue, Celts, Saxons - prevailed in Europe. They were uneducated, war-like, loyal to their chief or King.

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4
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Hagiographies

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Inspiring biographies of saints

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5
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Missionaries/Apostles

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People “sent” to spread the word

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6
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Middle Ages

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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.

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7
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Refugees

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The only successful farms

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8
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Abbot

A

Leader and father figure of a monarchy

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9
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Host

A

Eucharist/Communion bread

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10
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Eucharist

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A sacrifice

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11
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Votive

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A mass said for someone’s personal intentions

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12
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“Sacerdotal” society

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“Dominated by priests”

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13
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Gregorian chant

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Music with no rhythm, no harmony, no accompaniment

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14
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Religious order

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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

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15
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Scriptoriums

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Rooms for copying ancient books

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16
Q

What makes up the trinity and describe each one of them

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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)

17
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Simony

A

The buying and selling of church offices and religious services

18
Q

Celibacy

A

Priests are to live without the pleasures of sex

19
Q

Cardinals

A

Special assistants to the pope

20
Q

Cannons

A

Church laws

21
Q

Kanon

A

Reed

22
Q

Usury

A

Loaning money for a fee (interest)

23
Q

Monk

A

A person who dedicates his entire life to prayer

24
Q

What was the first degree from the Lateran council?

A

A canon against counterfeiters, against people harassing travelers on the move, etc

25
Q

What was the second degree from the Lateran council?

A

Banning use of the catapult, banning jousting tournaments

26
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What was the third degree from the Lateran council?

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Banning usury [usury: loaning money for a fee (interest)]