Key Words Flashcards
What is Superstition?
A belief, not based on knowledge, but on the supernatural. For example, witchcraft or astrology
What’s mass?
Public worship in the Roman Catholic Church
What’s Astrology?
Study of the planets and their effect on humans
What’s a vandemecum?
A medieval book carried by doctors
What’s a urine chart?
Used to examine urine to define an illness.
What’s a dissection?
To cut open a human and examine the insides
What’s an epidemic?
A widespread outbreak of disease
What’s the Black Death?
A term used to describe the bubonic plague
What is a monastery?
A building where monks live, eat and pray.
When was medieval Britain?
1250-1500
One of the most powerful influences during the Middle Ages was…
The church. It affected everything, education, medicine, attitudes, beliefs etc
What’s a rational idea?
An idea based on observations of the natural world e.g. the theory of the four humours
What’s a supernatural idea?
An idea unable to be explained by science or the laws of nature e.g. tests of faith from God
What were the four humours?
yellow and black bile, phlegm, blood
(Hot dry cold wet)
(Fire earth water air)
(Summer autumn winter spring)
Associated with astrology
Must have equal amount of each
What’s flagellation?
Whipping themselves in public and asking god for forgiveness